"I was reading through an article last night about the 25 greatest blunders in technology history and
was happily strolling through memory lane (what are Palm Pilots, PS/2s
and Apple Newtons anyways? :p) and then got quite a surprise at the
very end of the article. The number one technology failure of all time
according to the article’s author (Neil McAllister) is … security!
First off, Neil is right. From a technology standpoint, security has
failed. Neil argues that technology was built on top of an already
insecure foundation, and so the result of anything on top of that
foundation will be anything but secure. However, I would like to
present some additional reasons why security may be the biggest wet
blanket of all time. Read on.
In my opinion security is not a single “thing”. Security has to do
with much more than exploited vulnerabilities, hackers, and missing
patches. This beast we call security actually has three heads. They
are:
- People
- Process
- Technology
It’s when all three of these work together is when security is most
effective. Unfortunately, neither of these three have been playing well
together lately, if ever. Neil did a great job covering the technology
piece already, so I’ll talk about the other two. Also, each one of
these aspects of security is a long discussion in itself so I am just
going to share what I think is the top failure in each of the two
remaining categories and would love to hear your thoughts too."
Read more: http://blog.impactalabs.com/2009/01/03/security-the-number-one-technology-failure-of-all-time/
