Are security risks over-hyped?
According to this week’s Computer Weekly, 79% of ‘top IT professionals’ surveyed by recruitment consultant PSD think that IT security risks are over-hyped.
All IT support desks suffer a similar problem - very few people notice when everything is going well, but everyone notices when something is going wrong. Security support desks will suffer a similar fate.
If IT security risks received enough exposure, then corporate and desktop computers would all be patched up to date in order to prevent identity theft, the seizure of trade secrets, applications would be designed to prevent customer data loss, spam botnets would not exist, and corporate defacement attacks would not happen.
The article offers some kind of explanation, “IT recruiter Mark Sullivan said, ‘The trouble with security threats is that there has not been a massive attack on the internet recently. IT security prevents large losses from happening and maybe that is not put across strongly enough.’ “.
If this is true, then this approach will mean we suffer another large, headling grabbing security breach at a major firm. If this happens in the world of e-commerce, then it will continue to frighten people from shopping on-line, and this is bad news for everyone in the industry.
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