“Having developers assume that every thing ought to be open is an altogether new cause for distrust”
I don’t think I’m cut out for the cybersecurity industry. If you put me in a security presentation, I’ll be squirming in my seat, biting my lip, desperate to ask some questions and jump the rail tracks of death by PowerPoint. The security business loves to list things: this turns what could be punchy, short, relevant bursts of information into agonisingly detailed lists of malware names and the “krew” behind each one.
Is it of practical interest to know all those names when they’re all made up in the ephemeral world of online chatrooms and forums? Not when the headline that drew me to this particular talk was “nation-state cyberattacks”. FireEye makes security hardware and software, so of course it wants you to feel under threat – but it’s of no use to the small business operator to know the names of several hundred bits of malware.
What we really need to know is: which risks should we pay attention to first?
Based on the FireEye presentations, I don’t think Mr Putin is after our VAT returns. This part of the speechifying was useful to
