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by ajsmitty 1654 days ago
No, No we are not.

There has been serious underspending by companies for cybersecurity for at least a decade now. Companies are slowly waking up to the fact that the security team can't be less than 1% the size of the development team.

Companies have let developers do whatever they want for so long, that when infosec comes in and says we need to change this so we have better visibility in to what is being used, or how, it's "Oh this will hurt productivity, so no".

The shit I have heard because companies don't want to spend money on cybersecurity, because putting out new features is more important than something that "might" happen. They just keep spending more on endpoint security and letting everything inside do whatever it wants.

and why would they? Bad hacks blow over after a year or two. Equifax is still ticking along, so is Citi bank, so is capital one. Nobody cares if you get hacked, just pay a fine and give it some time and things will go back to normal.