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Importance of IT security
Naahhh,
There are people out there who still believe security is an overrated issue not worthy of their time. “There are more important issues” (disclaimer: I work for an IT security firm?)
Zero in a bit’s article: MBTA Hack shows security hasn’t improved in 10 years reminds us that IT security in the broader context of society, can be a life or death situation. I may not care about your losing money, but I sure as hell care if your security failings can cause me loss of life, limb, and/or liberty.
Zero in a bit references hacks that can literally ‘stop your heart.’ Which draws us to other examples of security failings that can be disastrous. I sure don’t want the Rail System I’m running on hacked, they’ve got computers all over the network (i.e. in every suburb they have a train station) and you can just imagine the day when someone plugs in a wireless modem onto one of those desktops and gives some hacker direct access into the Rail Information System.
I’ve got enough problems with the current timetabling then to have some hacker running the system as if it’s their private train-set and trying to crash the trains together.
Continuing the medical security scenario, we are reminded that software security isn’t just about protecting the “system” from outside interference, in its holistic sense, software security is about protecting the software from itself. We don’t want to be sitting under an X-Ray, Laser cutter when the machine has a buffer overflow and decides to give you 10x or 1000x dosage. Wait, that already happened.
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