Is the current network security bad? He said so

The 2018 RSA Conference features the theme " Now Matters." But is it really important? See who said it...

Is the current network security bad? He said so

At the RSA conference held last month, there was a potential discussion topic that IT network security personnel could gain the upper hand in confrontation with hackers.

The concept of the defender's importance is perfectly presented by the theme of the conference, “now Matters”. The basic premise is that starting the action now can improve the situation. From now on, taking the right approach to invest in the right technology, the future of cybersecurity will be better.

Against the background of seemingly endless data breaches, fragile cloud storage services, and frequent privacy violations, one speaker after another tried to persuade the audience: things really didn't look so bad.

RSA President Rohit Ghai said in a keynote speech at the conference:

"Let's talk about how the security community is getting stronger. How can it go faster? Of course, the news headlines won't write about this. You won't see the New York Times article describing the risk-based multifactor authentication. Blocking hackers from nation-states accessing critical databases."

Gay said that the essence of the IT industry is like this, the most important victory will never appear on the front page. Guy's keynote speech basically revolved around “a glimmer of hope” and pointed out the positive work that IT staff can do for the security of their own businesses.

Our efforts for "a glimmer of hope" will not appear in the headlines. In fact, we are headlined in stopping bad things.

Tom Corn, senior vice president and general manager of security products, gave a keynote speech. He believes that defenders should have a "home advantage" in the face of attackers. His point of view is: no one can understand the network like the company itself, and this should be the time and place of the defender.

The basic meaning expressed by Nadav Zafrir, the former commander of Israel's 8200 troops (central intelligence gathering force, equivalent to the US NSA), is that the defenders should be dominant.

We know where the battlefield is. The battle must start on our network, and we should be more aware of our network than our opponents.

Zavril also reminded participants that the role of the Internet and technology is not security, but connectivity and improving human life.

Is it really important now?

Although some RSA conference discussions and speakers expressed optimism, pessimists still exist. Adi Shamir, the "S" among the three authors of the RSA encryption algorithm (the other two are Ron Rivest and Leonard Adleman). ), in the keynote speech of the cryptographer group, "What is the 'first-line hope' of cybersecurity in your eyes?"

He replied: "The first hope in my eyes of cybersecurity is that our work safety is guaranteed."

IDC analysts also expressed some concerns about the current state of the network security industry at the company's annual RSA conference breakfast. Robert Westervelt, head of IDC's security product group research, said people were wandering around the RSA conference hall because they were confused by the promotion of different vendors.

Westerfort believes that the marketing of manufacturers will not correctly describe the products they actually provide, and it is not clear what their technology can do for the customer. Westerforte's view on cybersecurity marketing is fully presented by browser isolation technology vendor AuthenTIc8. Their booth did not sell their own products, but it was like selling the Indian oil that claimed to cure all diseases with the swaying "false safety" label.

Now very important

"Good things don't go out and bad things pass thousands of miles" is not false. Excessive publicity of "bad things" will indeed blur the public's view, and even industry experts can not correctly understand the marketing information of network security vendors.

Regardless of these, there is no fatalism in the cybersecurity results. Although hackers will continue to look for the goal of opening the door, companies can take a variety of measures to limit risk.

Companies do not have to position themselves in the "fixed target" position. Take action now, start thinking about best practices, understand risk, and achieve risk control! The measures that companies are taking now are really important and are related to the future security situation.

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