Re:Sad reality: It's cheaper to get hacked than build strong...
by paulddraper on Friday September 23, 2016 @11:56PM
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From your points:
> Australia's DSD said that just patching stuff and using whitelisting would've prevented 75% of so-called APT's in their country. Throw in MAC-enabled Linux, OpenBSD, sandboxed (even physically) browsers w/ NoScript, custom apps in safe languages, VPN's by default, sanest configuration by default, and so on. Residual risk gets tiny. What I just listed barely cost anything.
That's a lot more invasive ongoing work than "add piece of hardware", or "add this DNS record".
Re:Sad reality: It's cheaper to get hacked than build strong...
by nickpsecurity on Saturday September 24, 2016 @12:21AM
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Add this whitelisting software with your main apps on the list. Install updates when available by clicking update. Done for 75% of it. Your admin using OpenBSD or Linux install instead of something else for backend is invisible to you. The developers writing apps withbone framework or library use a different one. I'm not seeing this invasive nature of easy stuff. Straightforward.
Seems more do given the number of companies with 1-5 IT people that do stuff like this. They just care, Google tech X plus security/hardening guide, and follow the advice. Apply patches, check logs on occasion. A little less apathy goes a long way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12566098
...that a few, inexpensive practices stop almost all the common methods currently. There's also frameworks and stacks that immunize web applications against common ones for them with little to no effort by developers. These fit parent's claim where you just follow basic, security advice with available tools for each category to stop many attacks.
Now, that's not going to cover everything. A dedicated, professional attacker or team targeting your individual business might break past it all. Most breaches we see, though, are companies not doing the basics.