Re:Security Is a Useless Controls Problem
by TeMPOraL on Monday November 11, 2024 @06:32PM
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> More or less, they were told what they did was clog the flow of useful work.
That sounds like a very valid complaint, too rarely heard these days.
People seem to forget that security always comes at a cost, so security decisions are always trade-offs. The only perfectly secure system is the one that does absolutely nothing at all.
Does forcing everyone's machine to run real-time scans on all file I/O improves our security more than it costs us in crippling all software devs? Maybe. Being on the receiving end of such policies, including this particular one, I sometimes doubt this question was even asked, much less that someone bothered to estimate the expected loss on both sides of the equation. Ignoring the risks doesn't make them go away, but neither do costs go away when you pretend they don't exist.
That sounds like a very valid complaint, too rarely heard these days.
People seem to forget that security always comes at a cost, so security decisions are always trade-offs. The only perfectly secure system is the one that does absolutely nothing at all.
Does forcing everyone's machine to run real-time scans on all file I/O improves our security more than it costs us in crippling all software devs? Maybe. Being on the receiving end of such policies, including this particular one, I sometimes doubt this question was even asked, much less that someone bothered to estimate the expected loss on both sides of the equation. Ignoring the risks doesn't make them go away, but neither do costs go away when you pretend they don't exist.