The Effect of Snake Oil Security

Trailrunner7 writes "Threatpost has a guest column by Robert Hansen (aka Rsnake) about the long-term effects of snake-oil security products. 'I've talked about this a few times over the years during various presentations but I wanted to document it here as well. It's a concept that I've been wrestling with for 7+ years and I don't think I've made any headway in convincing anyone, beyond a few head nods. Bad security isn't just bad because it allows you to be exploited. It's also a long term cost center. But more interestingly, even the most worthless security tools can be proven to "work" if you look at the numbers.'"

Re:Nice article, nice story

[tverbeek]

I was disappointed that the bear-in-the-woods analogy involved neither shit nor the Pope, but it was insightful nonetheless.

Re:Nice article, nice story

[(Score.5, Interestin]

Insightful article. It was worth it just to read the bear in the woods analogy, which will give you a good laugh.

Preved?

Re:Good, Bad and Ugly

[CarpetShark]

Think fleas carrying diseases.

We're thinking, we're thinking! FFS give us a break, we're only little.