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> In general humans get really excited about building new and transformative things, and we have a big blind spot to ongoing maintenance. The IT industry mirro
by collyw 8y ago
> In general humans get really excited about building new and transformative things, and we have a big blind spot to ongoing maintenance.
The IT industry mirrors this exactly, where we need a constant churn of new shiny tech for new projects. It means that many projects are done while still learning some tech rather that using well understood because it is unfashionable.
- DiffEq 8y agoExactly...90% or more of Security SEM platform sales could be saved if the new kids had a good command of syslog, awk and grep.
- Spooky23 8y agoMost of those tools exist to check boxes. 80% of cyber stuff is bullshit or snake oil.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoYup. I spent some months working on a product in this space, and the most surprising takeaway I had was that there's a risk that by buying such a product, you're exposing yourself to legal problems - e.g. when a product tells you about some potential security issue, you can no longer claim ignorance. This apparently informs buying decisions, so product makers need to take it into account.
- bqe 8y agoA good SIEM can search terabytes of logs quickly and aggregate interesting things like least common values. Good luck doing that with grep.
- berti 8y agoWhich is great if you have terabytes of logs, but GP's point is that the majority don't have that problem. Simple solutions are, well, simpler.