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Security Is a Useless Controls Problem


We're all a bunch of chimps in a cage

Our chimp behaviors are similar to the original DES issue above: we tend to invest in useless controls that don’t make sense, usually impacting operational effectiveness. "But Jon," you say, unhappily trapped in this conversation, "What if the reasoning is very complex and hard to explain to people who are not experienced security masters?". People, going about their everyday lives and jobs with their own problems, deadlines, and OKRs, have a finite amount of fucks to give about security.

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