There’s a problem in technology and cyber security, and it isn’t too much innovation - it’s too much investment in a lack of innovation. With new cyber security products pouring out of accelerators and venture capital investment programs you’d expect some of them to start fixing the underlying problems that have got us to this point.
You’d expect wrong. The solution isn’t to layer more and more layers of technology doing the same fundamentally broken things onto the same quicksand, it’s to take a long hard look at where we went wrong and what would need to be different to be better.
We won’t fix it in one go, but we need to at least be talking about the problem and how solutions could work.
Key takeaways:
- Systemic security problems in the technology ecosystem, fixing the problems after creating them
- The insidious takeover of security by marketing and the continuous outpouring of FUD
- Why the Silicon Valley model of security needs cyber-enabled crime to survive and thrive, and how this harms people
- How to take a look at what you have and turn it into what you need rather than buying what you want