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>If the US were to be serious about corporate IT security What happened to the responsibility of corporations for corporate security? Including corporations th
by kingaillas 5y ago
>If the US were to be serious about corporate IT security
What happened to the responsibility of corporations for corporate security? Including corporations that are the victims of attacks, and corporations that sell buggy operating systems and applications?
Why does the government have to provide the red teams? The general attitude is all government agencies are wasteful and incompetent, except in this circumstance where the wealthiest corporations in the history of the world apparently can't spend enough to fix their own crap. But the government not only can but should??
This just sounds like externalizing costs to the public while banking record private profits.
How about rather than subsidizing software corporations we talk about liability laws and fines, like any other physical industry that releases dangerous, broken products. Or an insurance system that is funded by a portion of the profits the software industry makes. Then we're actually making the software vendors feel some pain which will incentivize them to release higher quality code.
- miohtama 5y ago“Too big to fail” and investors do not get hurt. The problem does not fix itself until the investors start truly losing money, the care, unlike the Equifax case. Until the portfolio value cannot go down 90% there is not going to be a change in corporate actionism.
- rawtxapp 5y agoThey are starting to lose money, it's 5M$ today, who knows what it'll be tomorrow or how often it's going to happen.
- dredmorbius 5y agoSelf-regulation doesn't.
- erosenbe0 5y agoAgree. The govt need not provide the teams as they must compete for talent like anyone else and don't have much to spare. The govt only has a relative abundance of talent [largely interspersed with its contractors] in highly regulated activites like making nuclear weapons, where private entities don't participate.
- fiter 5y agoOne of the functions of the government is to educate and train its population. I think using that function could resolve the shortage or high cost of talent.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoDo corporations defend their factories with their own weapons?
- R0b0t1 5y agoWell, they can. Interesting thought.
- creaghpatr 5y agoBiggest global companies definitely have their own mercenaries on retainer. But that’s mostly for international operations on continents like Africa.