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by hazmazlaz 918 days ago
Except the fallacy with this premise is that the other teams _haven't_ solved the problems, which is why the cybersecurity teams are necessary in the first place. Cybersecurity doesn't solve any problems that are inherent to computing and are unavoidable, cybersecurity solves problems that are created by the mistakes of other teams. It's an unfortunate truth and it's difficult for many people to swallow, but I have found in my career, which is nearly 20 years at this point, that this is true in every case that I have personally experienced. That is to say, if developers created secure software by design, and if infrastructure teams/operations teams handled their assets and processes in a secure manner, then there would be no need for cybersecurity outside of a few specialized roles.