Articles will be revealing in many aspect of information security and information technology in general, but why would you trust SECURE TARGET?
Being blunt by default and straightforward about root causes of tech insecurities is not common at all. You will soon experience (if have not already) how the Computer Security business is not different from any other market. This is a business, why would you think market leaders do not want more profit and how they are able to make more profit without compromising some aspects of Real Security and pushing something to the market, not as a real ‘Need’ but more as a fake ‘Want’?
This has been one of the challenges of security products’ market in terms of customer acquisition, and the conflict between stakeholders and market drivers will always have its dark shadow over Security Initiatives, making consumer doubtful and uncertain about right solution.
Here you will be told about how to simply and effectively forever take care of the security of your computers and other information technology elements. You will realize which part of the market is real and which part is fake (and only for sake of making more money), but you should not be shocked as this is the reality of almost all businesses. Also it does not mean market is pushing something useless or necessarily insecure, it just might not necessary be what you need at the moment, it may be a waste of money, or may not be what your security program really demands, and yes sometimes it may totally put your security program in an insecure posture! Hence, jeopardizing Security with security!
In the other words, considering rule of “Complexity Equal Insecurity”, you generally pay more for something which not only is not more secure, but also downgrades your current quality of your security posture!
With many years of experience, transparency has been my first byproduct of IT business: I did not sell a single PC while it was possible to tune up the old one better than the current one, and I revealed all security details of a given IT element during my dedicated-focused-professional training without fear of having an student better than teacher! In the meantime, Questioning every aspect of computer technology without affiliation to any product or even any specific Trend put me in a neutral position where the metric would be measuring effectiveness, not what is possible at the moment according to market. So here’s why you can trust my judgment:
1) Member of both communities
I am an advocate to both communities of security and hackers. In order to stop Cybercrime we have to be virtually undercover and there is no way we can feel the heat of this battle unless being a front liner in security side.
Active learning from both communities is the key to help maintaining a healthy and secure cyberspace, something that is prone to turn to a myth! Defending a society is not possible unless knowing your enemy, and I am not talking about ridiculous hands-on training courses on ethical hacking. This is about social engineering of hackers community, that’s what they do with us every single minute of interaction. In opposite side, secure community, the most secluded introvert group of people who think that they can conquer a land before knowing the location of in on the map!
2) Research
knowing what is happening with the fastest-pace-industry-of -all -times (IT) is crucial but it is not enough for handling the unleashed horse of Cyber insecurities. Continuous Research is the key to maintain a level of balance between different individual cyber world entities: what is entering (or better say Penetrating) into world of cyber will bring its own insecurities to the equation which may totally change the current state of insecurities or magnitude of catastrophic outcome of other entities which were totally secure before introducing the new entity! It means we need to constantly research the current equation of cyber elements and assess different factors to manage ongoing changes in a secure manner. This requires research on all aspect of cyberspace not just those topics compiled with the word ‘security’.
3) Result oriented
Judge based on result and outcome not personal preferences, that’s the basic tool and logic of evaluation. Whether you prefer hot or cold coffee, does not change the state of hot and cold coffee! Simply every single security solution is good as long as the result is convincing and satisfying, and every single security solution is a waste of time and money as long as the outcome is not favorable. You could use this analogy with what SECURE TARGET offers as well: if the result is not superior and significantly positive then there is no reason to back up a solution.
