The industry has been worried about security for decades. The problems are elsewhere - in user attitudes and the packaged software modelhttps://twitter.com/zeynep/status/863054058986274816 …
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The historic computer security model tends to presume a sophisticated user that maintains everything and spends to upgrade regularly...
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One can blame the user for sticking to older software versions and not having a substantial security budget, but that's unlikely to change
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Better: move to more secure OS models (iOS/Chromebook) and move to the cloud: solve many of the problems at source.
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When you move to cloud you solve the 'no budget/can't be bothered' problem of upgrading software - it's always up-to-date...
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And cloud + ioS/Chromebook gets away from out-of-date/unsecured devices with local copies of the crown jewels in every Outlook archive file
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That is, point and shout at Microsoft or the NHS all you like, but this is really a structural challenge with only structural solutions. </>
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I try to move people to both all the time. But that is not an enterprise level solution. Yes, we need structural solutions.
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Yes NHS should update. But Microsoft should spend some of its $100 billion cash hoard to move people forward if it is actually "worried."
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In a sane world, it wouldn't just be an appeal to charity. But the world needs to move to secure systems as soon as possible.
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Too much infrastructure is running on terrible systems that are tightly coupled to one another. This is walking into a disaster.
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Outmoded regulation is at least part of problem. For MS monopoly meant mkt didn't punish poor security (in short term, paying the price now)
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