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As some other comments point out, security hardening doesn't directly raise company value. It's hard to justify in the short-term. Attitudes about it are much
by tomc1985 5y ago
As some other comments point out, security hardening doesn't directly raise company value. It's hard to justify in the short-term.
Attitudes about it are much better now than they have ever been, but there are still a lot of folks out there that don't prioritize it.
- Godel_unicode 5y agoThis argument is super lazy. Businesses do tons of things which don't raise short-term value. R&D, buying insurance, hiring junior people, laying out money for reserved instances with AWS. Guess what all of these have in common? The exact thing that security has; eliminating long-term risk. Don't blame the stock holders because your arguments didn't persuade management...