Thoughtful security op-ed blog, via the Blogs@ACM section, in the Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery, and scribed by Jason Hong; postulating the current focus failures of the information security community. His assertion - of wrong-headed targeting, and the misalignment of information security professionals claiming to work on real-word issues is fundamentally on-point. Something we have been saying for a number of cycles here at Infosecurity.US. All of this can be summed up in two words: Common Sense. Jason’s work is todays’ MustRead.
“…This isn’t a mismatch just in computer research. Just go to any industry trade show, and try to count the number of companies that have a real focus on end-users. No, not network admins or software developers, I mean actual end-users. You know, the people that try to use their computers to accomplish a goal…” via Communications Blogs@ACM a publicaiton of the Association of Computing Machinery by Jason Hong