RSA Conference and the dismal nature of cybersecurity (Reporter's Notebook)

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By Tom Foremski
ZDNet News
March 11, 2019

Walking around the giant show floor at RSA I was struck by a thought: What a 
dismal industry this must be. If you are good at your job, you haven't created 
any new technology that makes processes more productive, or could be used to 
create new types of products -- you plug up the holes in the bucket that are 
known. You cannot reliably stop future attacks -- only the ones that are known. 
And all that work and cyber crime continues to grow and prosper.

The cost of cyber crime is the loss itself (predicted to be $6 trillion a year 
in 2021), plus the cost of buying the cyber security needed to bolt the stable 
door, plus all the engineers involved in developing the software, and then, on 
the customer side implementing it, all the sales people, field support staff, 
marketing, VCs, etc.

It all seems such a dismal waste of human energies that could be used for other 
things rather than trying to frustrate computer hackers who seem to have no 
problem getting around those brilliant defenses and gallant efforts.

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