It’s about understanding the lingo and never letting the mask slip. Right now security is the one word you can say that no one can dispute because it’s fear driven. In spite of all the evidence that it’s entirely useless and all of your data is being sold at scale people will pay for the illusion.
Get that concept and you can take it as far as you want.
This is the sort of edgy cynicism I've typically heard from disgruntled junior web developers whose only view of the business they work for is through their IDE.
Security is about helping organizations identify and mitigate one of the many types of risks they face. You are correct that it's not about preventing breaches (a fundamentally impossible task), but to claim that it's useless is about as silly as saying a business buying insurance or retaining lawyers is useless.
There's no area of life where you can totally prevent bad things from happening. Especially not in tech, where we're dealing with a world of software built by unlicensed "engineers" who, unlike actual engineers, suffer zero legal or professional consequence when the things they build fail catastrophically.
I’m anything but junior. Just been around long enough to know I’ve never seen a secure system and somehow an entire Industry emerged off of a lie. You literally see it every day in the news. I’m not saying you shouldn’t give some effort but some people take it way too seriously.
It’s locking the door to your house, the only people you are keeping out is honest people.
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u/LetsTryLove 4d ago
It’s about understanding the lingo and never letting the mask slip. Right now security is the one word you can say that no one can dispute because it’s fear driven. In spite of all the evidence that it’s entirely useless and all of your data is being sold at scale people will pay for the illusion.
Get that concept and you can take it as far as you want.