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Subject: [ISN] RSA Hammers Home Fact That Hackers Are Winning
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2015-04-28 8:48:40
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1504280848280.26867 () infosecnews ! org
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By Sean Michael Kerner
eWEEK.com
2015-04-27
There was a pall of darkness that hung over the RSA Conference that ran at
San Francisco's Moscone Center from April 20 to 24. Speaker after speaker,
session after session, vendor booth after vendor booth, there was one
overriding message that I heard time and again—the attackers are winning.
The most clichéd saying of the week was that there are only two kinds of
organizations—those that have been breached and those that haven't yet
discovered that they have been breached.
It's an air of defeatism that frankly I find appalling. How could the
security industry with all its myriad vendors, tools and money not be
succeeding in stopping attackers? Where is all the money going that
enterprises are investing in security if it's not going to stopping
attackers?
The near-endless drumbeat of breach disclosures in the media (and here at
eWEEK we have covered our fair share of breaches) has helped to create a
climate of fear, where enterprises fear that they will be the next Sony or
Target, the next breach waiting to be discovered.
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