Better is worse than good enough
A very insightful man was interviewed on DarkReading.
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Source: Antivirus Inventor: Security Departments Are Wasting Their Time
This article supports my personal motto very strongly: better is worse than good enough. While I have not fully processed the extent of the points made in the article yet, it sits well with me after a first read.
In a presentation here yesterday, Tippett -- who is vice president of risk intelligence for Verizon Business, chief scientist at ICSA Labs, and the inventor of the program that became Norton Antivirus -- said that about one third of today's security practices are based on outmoded or outdated concepts that don't apply to today's computing environments.
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Tippett also suggested that many security pros waste time trying to buy or invent defenses that are 100 percent secure. "If a product can be cracked, it's sometimes thrown out and considered useless," he observed. "But automobile seatbelts only prevent fatalities about 50 percent of the time. Are they worthless? Security products don't have to be perfect to be helpful in your defense."
Source: Antivirus Inventor: Security Departments Are Wasting Their Time
This article supports my personal motto very strongly: better is worse than good enough. While I have not fully processed the extent of the points made in the article yet, it sits well with me after a first read.