Reply to post: Re: Not fully convinced

Want security? Next-gen startups show how old practices don't cut it

Charles 9

Re: Not fully convinced

But unlike a military, a business needs to be able to, well, do business. At some point, the return on security diminishes because you stifle the business flow. That's why there's a sliding scale of security versus ease of use. Improving one necessarily stifles the other the way a locked door delays you getting into your own house.

Plus one needs to realize that no security measure can be effective even in a practical sense since there's always the threat of the trusted insider turned traitor. I mean, insiders defeated the Great Wall of China.

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