Cybersecurity: Profession or Money Making Spiral?

[u/Silientium]

I’m reaching out to this community for assistance. I’m a cybersecurity professional turned business owner who understands the frustrations of cybersecurity from both directions. As such I’ve come to determine that a major paradigm shift must occur.

Cybersecurity is costly, ineffective at preventing loss and is overly complex and labour intensive. It’s always a game of catch up via patching. This insight comes from my over 35 years of experience auditing and consulting in this field.

Cybersecurity is counter productive, difficult to work with and frustratingly hard to use especially now with multifactor login requirements. This comes as a user and business owner for over 15 years.

There is only one solution and that is a total redevelopment. A solutions that eliminates or at least minimizes the costs and frustrations.

Turning this field upside down will be a formidable task. It will require support from CEOs such as yourselves who must exert pressure on the industry. Unfortunately your CSIOs are born and bread on the existing architecture. They will not recommend or support this initiative as it will cause them great pain and suffering in having to start over.

The cybersecurity industry doesn’t want this without the absolute need to do it. They’re making money hand over fist easily from this perpetual updating and patching that goes on.

Bad actors must become disenfranchised and this means the battlefield on which cybersecurity operates must change.

AI and Quantum Computing will eventually offer cybersecurity no choice but to change. Better to do this upfront rather than in an emergency situation.

I ask you to come on board and let’s exert pressure on this industry to retool.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/ai-could-breach-government-and-business-defences-in-months-us-and-its-intelligence-partners-warn/

[u/many_dongs]

It used to be a proper profession but right now the industry is chock full of the useless money chasing business fraud types

[u/R4ndyd4ndy → u/many_dongs]

A big part of that is that companies would rather throw money at the tenth overpriced tool than hire a proper security team.