Re:Cybersecurity Is Not Important
by nameistaken on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:32PM
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> Wow that is a bad take.
> > virus checkers - slowing down workstations for minimal benefit.
> Being able to stop known malware is a significant benefit.
Having been part of a malware debacle that essentially circumvented two different av/malware tools it's hard for me to find a pragmatic balance to the year's worth of absolute hell the tooling caused to the systems I'm responsible for. (Log bombing, HDD I/O stackups, chained immune responses and deadlocks to literally nothing) +25% or more resource consumption _just_ to keep the AVs happy.
Couple that with needlessly aggressive IT policy (see Mordac, the preventer of IT services on steroids)
There's got to be a better way, but maybe this is the new normal.
> virus checkers - slowing down workstations for minimal benefit.
Being able to stop known malware is a significant benefit.
> internet access filtering - Businesses doing deep packet inspection on the off chance that one of the staff members might bring in something nasty.
Doesn't have to be DPI, being able to say "hey this porn is not okay during work" is absolutely fine. Especially if there's malware out there that redirects you around to sites you might not want your customers to see.
> The reality is, that if somebody wants to compromise your security, they will find a way.
That's such a lie by omission, there's a lot of unsophisticated spray-n-pray type of attacks out there.