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For most corporations, security and robustness are -- and for a long time have been -- an afterthought. Making systems hard to hack and robust to rare events:
by cs702 2y ago
For most corporations, security and robustness are -- and for a long time have been -- an afterthought.
Making systems hard to hack and robust to rare events:
* is really hard,
* costs a lot of money, and
* reduces earnings in the short term.
Faced with these inconvenient facts, many executives who want to see stock prices go up prioritize... other things.
- hypeatei 2y agoTo them, they are thinking about it though. They installed this ultra secure thing called CrowdStrike that checked a regulatory box for cybersecurity
- cs702 2y agoCrowdStrike is a textbook example of a single point of failure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure
- prasadjoglekar 2y agoTo be fair, most corporations signed up for Crowdstrike as a way to address some issues. I'm sure it wasn't cheap and CS was probably better at security than an IT admin at a 50 person shop.
- cs702 2y agoYeah, it wasn't cheap. It's still not enough.
- Damogran6 2y agoMuch like the RSA attack, now we get to see how Crowdstrike handles damage control.
- croes 2y agoBut what's worse, hundreds of maybe insecure companies or creating a big single point of failure?
- fire_lake 2y agoGlobally or locally? To each individual company, it’s better to have the big single point of failure. That’s the problem.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoI feel like I would be doing everything in my power to de-Windows my operation.