So far, I've shoved this most excellent post in quite a few faces .... and will shove in more :-)
I often wonder whether those same people who equate infosec/"cyber" with fraud (and there are plenty, sadly - not on *this* enlightened list of course :-)) and thus want to "solve cyber", also want to "solve theft", "solve murder", "solve greed", etc, etc, etc. Ah, here goes one more: "... we don't need security, we don't handle credit card numbers here" .... On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Dave Aitel <[email protected]> wrote: > So much of security is driven by "fraud" and coming from a spook > background as many people on this list do, I find it annoying. > RSA-the-conference-and-meme is one of those markets that just baffles a > lot of people who come from the government space. How is any of that > stuff possibly worth so much money? > > "Fraud" is partially the answer I think. Things that come from the fraud > world are as alien to spook-world as a giant ant-eater is to North > America. At some level defeating Fraud is about hygiene, more than > security. It's about valuing information in fungible units defined by > "Credit Cards" or "Users" and not by "importance". > > But climates can change and we are at the cusp of that change. If you > look at how Google Wallet or ApplePay work, they have the major > advantage in that they already know what you want to buy before you buy > it, and they know where you are at all times, so fraud is going to get > exponentially more difficult. It may, in fact, become impossible. > Imagine if consumer Fraud went extinct? Is this harder to imagine than a > world without woolly mammoths? > > Companies have learned this year from Sony Pictures that protecting > yourself against nation-states is the difference between surviving and > not surviving, and that doing so requires a completely different > corporate design than they're used to. FraudWorld has been invaded by > SpookWorld. > > Good times! :) Of course, I can't end without saying that if you want to > see what the climate is going to look like, what the swamp creatures > about to invade tend to eat, then you have to come down to the > Everglades and see us at INFILTRATE. > > -dave > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dailydave mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave > > -- Dr. Anton Chuvakin Site: http://www.chuvakin.org Twitter: @anton_chuvakin <https://twitter.com/anton_chuvakin> Work: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chuvakin
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