By Satyam Tyagi
Snake Oil and FUD
The best question is asked by Jason Bloomberg in his latest Forbes posting on the Wyndham court case, “whether following some industry standard cybersecurity checklist would suffice, even if a breach were to occur anyway?”
In our businesses the IT security architecture, solutions, products, purchase and deployment decisions are forced to be guided by FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) and not merit. Since the management and boardrooms don’t spend enough time to understand the details, the big name vendors push their broken and antiquated technology through these FUDs:
- Checklist or best practices: Our product has been qualified to be part of so and so compliance checklist, even though it does not make you actually secure.
- Certifications and other barriers: Our product has these big name certifications from these fifty organizations, even though it is totally irrelevant to your use case.
- Nobody ever got fired for choosing a “famous brand name”: Buy our name brand product that your management will recognize and approve the budget for, even though there are much more effective products and architectures out there.
Read the entire article at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/arrested-my-hands-were-already-tied-satyam-tyagi.
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