Re: Cattle dung! Kite marks mean nothing.
A kite mark like the Government's Cyber Essentials initiative? Where anyone can tick "yes" to a load of yes/no questions, hand over £300 and be given a badge to put on their website to show everyone how secure the site is?
Your rant would be better if this were actually how it works. But it isnt.
Its not a simple as ticking yes - or at least it isnt for most certification bodies and any who do take that need to be outed as they are pretty much stealing money.
However the general gist is correct - but the scheme was never meant to say "this is a secure website" so that might be down to misunderstanding. The scheme itself makes sense - it isnt there to challenge genuine hackers, its there to put paid to the companies repeatedly losing data and / or money to ransomware. Given the costs of this (and the costs to companies from Dridex and CEO Phishing type messages), Cyber Essentials isnt a bad move.
As you probably already know, most organisations will actually fail to certify on the first attempt as the bar is higher than most people realise.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
