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How will it get better?

• whatshisface 5y ago
  Losses due to underinvestment will motivate investment. Some companies will invest more wisely than others. Eventually every company will be wisely investing in security, by copying companies that got it right or by being replaced by them.
• jl6 5y ago
  Possible outcomes from most to least likely: * Non-tech industry belatedly starts prioritising cyber security; security gradually gets better while costs increase and infosec consultants enjoy a Y2K-style boom. * Tech-competent startups outcompete non-tech industries through avoiding ransom costs. * The international internet degrades into mostly-closed national networks with end-to-end government control and monitoring. * The US government starts treating these attacks as national security threats and goes all War on Terror, probably triggered by a hit on critical infrastructure that costs lives. Heinous collateral damage.
• Raidion 5y ago
  Data security will get better as the risk calculus changes. A lot of companies are mentally doing math: (Probability of cyber attack per year) * (cost of ransom + costs of downtime) = X, (Overhead of additional cybersecurity personnel)= Y If X < Y, it's basically just a no brainier to just eat the costs and pay the X million if it happens. If Y > X, they hire security personnel and it "gets better". If the government makes paying the ransom less attractive (via basically labeling it as a financial transaction with a sanctioned entity making it illegal) OR the probability of the cyber attack goes up (as this becomes more lucrative), risk calculus changes, security is improved, and it "gets better".
• nradov 5y ago
  Most small and medium enterprises will eventually have to outsource their technology infrastructure to a few huge cloud vendors that have sufficient scale and technical expertise to build secure systems.