No Myth = Truth | background reading
When a cybersecurity company as big as IronNet files for bankruptcy, with at least $400 million of investment raised, a leadership team sourced from the US National Security Agency (NSA), and yet cybercrime continues to increase vertiginously year-on-year, what is actually happening here?
Why did their business fail to find its market, when the market is so big?
When Palo Alto Networks, one of the most prominent and historical players in security, has a vulnerability which permits a hack through a firewall, what’s really going on?
How can basic mistakes surface so easily in this way?
When AWS, perhaps the most-used cloud provider of all, is out for a whole day, an outage as long as that, as if for a weekend walk in the park and a picnic among friends, who’s going to own up for what’s truly happened?
Why does no one say anything one way or the other?
And when Jaguar Land Rover workers sit on their hands for months because one bad-actor hack froze everything they are, requiring a soft loan of billions from the UK government just to keep them in business, where will this end?
Will it end?
Where is the problem, actually?
Ordinary users to blame — users like you and me?
Clever hackers out there — as most are choosing to claim?
Or security players like AWS, spending their time on monetising complex recovery process — while they neglect our basics day-after-day?