Cyber and information security: have we all gone mad?

Some painful truths

• All common software now tracks what we do and reports on it by default
• Basically impossible to escape from this situation
• If you are a dysfunctional organization, your own on-premise efforts will not be good enough
• Cloud may be the best you can do
• Securing software is very hard to do, especially if dysfunctional ○ As a service may be the best you can do
• oftware is indeed terrible, the business model for good software is dead ○ “Only free software can afford to be good”
• Yet, even the most professional organizations have now given up
• We have globally accepted a terrible situation