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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups by tomc1985 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:03AM (#27890820)
As some other comments point out, security hardening doesn't directly raise company value. It's hard to justify in the short-term.

Attitudes about it are much better now than they have ever been, but there are still a lot of folks out there that don't prioritize it.

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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups by Godel_unicode on Friday July 23, 2021 @11:54PM (#27938260)
This argument is super lazy. Businesses do tons of things which don't raise short-term value. R&D, buying insurance, hiring junior people, laying out money for reserved instances with AWS.

Guess what all of these have in common? The exact thing that security has; eliminating long-term risk. Don't blame the stock holders because your arguments didn't persuade management...

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