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FraudWorld vs. SpookWorld
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 09:10:44 -0400
So much of security is driven by "fraud" and coming from a spook background as many people on this list do, I find it annoying. RSA-the-conference-and-meme is one of those markets that just baffles a lot of people who come from the government space. How is any of that stuff possibly worth so much money? "Fraud" is partially the answer I think. Things that come from the fraud world are as alien to spook-world as a giant ant-eater is to North America. At some level defeating Fraud is about hygiene, more than security. It's about valuing information in fungible units defined by "Credit Cards" or "Users" and not by "importance". But climates can change and we are at the cusp of that change. If you look at how Google Wallet or ApplePay work, they have the major advantage in that they already know what you want to buy before you buy it, and they know where you are at all times, so fraud is going to get exponentially more difficult. It may, in fact, become impossible. Imagine if consumer Fraud went extinct? Is this harder to imagine than a world without woolly mammoths? Companies have learned this year from Sony Pictures that protecting yourself against nation-states is the difference between surviving and not surviving, and that doing so requires a completely different corporate design than they're used to. FraudWorld has been invaded by SpookWorld. Good times! :) Of course, I can't end without saying that if you want to see what the climate is going to look like, what the swamp creatures about to invade tend to eat, then you have to come down to the Everglades and see us at INFILTRATE. -dave
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