This is not secure

[peepeep]

Here’s an interesting talk about security delivered to professionals but kept at a “high-level” (accessible) by the speaker.

CeBIT 2017 – Marcin’s Keynote “The Threat of Global Thermonuclear Cyberwarfare”

Most memorable to me is this slide:

A culture generally pays the best those it values the most. A shortage of professionals in a field may imply that the:

• pay is low (relatively)
• status is low (relatively)
• size of threat is large (and growing)

Business has a profit motive to keep the perception of risk at manageable levels.:

@peepeep

Companies generally soft-pedal security risks and exaggerate their efforts to protect their customers from exposure and harm. If people were fully informed, the argument goes, their caution in buying (versus urgency/impulse) would have a negative impact on the bottom line.

Since we live in a world of hyper-managed perceptions:

• Public Relations (consumer)
• Public Affairs (citizen)

and public education is mediocre at best, how do we escape this box (of ignorance) and others like it?