The term security expert (or similar) always gives me this uncomfortable feeling. Even if they don't literally call themselves this, definitely (in the case of

The term security expert (or similar) always gives me this uncomfortable feeling. Even if they don't literally call themselves this, definitely (in the case of Fox-IT) their appearance in the media often portrays them like this to the general public. Without getting into semantics, the general public is often left with experts' advice which makes them feel incompetent and/or scared. I guess you could blame journalism, but I don't know if you can expect them to be the whole bridge between both (that's another philosophical discussion anyway). My beef with these 'security experts from Fox-IT say...'-pieces is they don't provide proper context. Something like technology is complex, security is complex, it is hard or impossible to know everything, to know future risks,... you get the picture. I really like it when people acknowledge they don't know everything and in this case specifically because the opposite, I think, has a very negative effect on the general public.