[attrition] rant: Abandon Ship! Data Loss Ahoy!

[lyger]

http://attrition.org/security/rant/z/rapid7.html

Tue Mar 18 16:10:57 EST 2008
d2d

You are a security vendor. You sell the mightiest security doohickey the 
world has ever seen. It does it all, including "...ensuring your network 
is safe from hackers..." and amazingly it "...scans for Web site and 
database vulnerabilities that hackers can use to capture credit card 
information without you being aware". Since your doohickey does what no 
others have ever successfully managed to do, you can tout your client list 
proudly, and pimp your customer implementations liberally.

UNTIL...

One of your customers joins the etiolated top 10 with a massive hacker 
perpetrated data loss incident.

OUCH.

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