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Oh sorry, I meant ‘infosec’, the QA thing seems obviously silly. Is your objection to it that it lumps too many things together?
by pvg 3y ago
Oh sorry, I meant ‘infosec’, the QA thing seems obviously silly. Is your objection to it that it lumps too many things together?
- tptacek 3y agoYes, it almost doesn't have any meaning at all as a term. It's an umbrella for a bunch of disciplines that are less similar than, say, QA and software development. It can also, as you intuited, kind of be a "tell" for people who aren't thinking seriously about the computer science of security. It isn't automatically, but it pretty clearly is when you're using it in the same breath as "security is just QA". It is the CISSP of terms.