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On the opposite, startup has everything to lose. No other business lines
by mahaniok 6y ago
On the opposite, startup has everything to lose. No other business lines
- visarga 6y agoCan't answer to 'Proven' on account of comment depth, but I am not concern trolling. I work as a ML engineer and many of our projects and datasets are sensitive. The company has signed contracts of confidentiality for this data and we are really concerned about where it sits and who gets access to it. Another major concern is GDPR - can you reliably track and delete data related to a specific person? You got to think about this right from the start to keep the necessary metadata in the tagging pipeline.
- marcinzm 6y agoA large company may lose more than the value of the impacted business line while a startup is capped at the value of the business line (or rather the cash on hand which is even less). So the maximum loss is much higher in absolute terms for a large company and so they're able to invest more absolute money into security. Plus, philosophically, startups already have such massive risk that another X% due to a potential security breach isn't even worth bothering with versus spending the money on lowering risk in other areas.
- Proven 6y agoDon't think so. In this case security isn't a feature so there's relatively less incentives to put resources on it. If you get lucky and get acquired before you get hacked, you can even dramatically underinvest in security and be just fine. Maybe the GP post is concern trolling, but claiming that security will be rock solid just because they are a startup is also unreasonable.