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This is it. I think a lot of people here forgot that most businesses aren't huge corporations or tech oriented. Most businesses probably have less than 50 peop
by bongodongobob 3y ago
This is it.
I think a lot of people here forgot that most businesses aren't huge corporations or tech oriented. Most businesses probably have less than 50 people and non-professional "IT Support" ie, the owners grandson who is "good with computers".
The amount of door wide open security stances I've seen working with small to mid-size businesses is like 75%. The difficulty of prying local admin away from the owner of a concrete company is quite high. It's all very ephemeral and hard to explain to non-tech savvy people.
Turning on MFA for everything possible, aggressive AV, social engineering/phishing training, and removing local admin daily drivers probably solves 99.99% of malware.
Memory safe software would be great, yes, but it really isn't the problem.
- acdha 3y agoIf the owner’s grandson is doing the IT they’re unlikely to be able to write or audit unsafe code, either. That means they need to be able to trust that their suppliers are using safe primitives. Memory safety is like requiring their electrician use use circuit breakers - no, it won’t protect every source of fire but we have codes specifically to avoid needing everyone to have expertise.