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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I work in Cybersecurity. Things do not feel as secure as they should be.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I work in cloud. The amount of people who have the ability to destroy the entire internet with one command is too damned high!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you talking about BGP or the big DNS-, CDN- or cloud hosters?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

BGP mostly. It's really shocking!

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

From someone in IT but not cybersec it seems like a lot of people in cybersec don't know much and are mindlessly following best practice guides or something without understanding why they do/don't need to implement it.

I regularly see in my own life people freaking out over things that don't apply to us or buying a million different software services. We are so many layers deep in cyber sec products but it would take 40+ days to restore from our backups..

Am I completely off base with this perception? Maybe I am putting to much weight on red team knowledge for a blue team job role.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If you want to feel secure, you should unlearn everything you know about security. That's the only way.