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by tallanvor 310 days ago
Saying "you just need to want to learn it" is oversimplifying.

It's not just learning how to secure it once, it's constantly watching for announcements regarding new vulnerabilities and being able to patch at short notice or being able to pull the infrastructure offline if you can't patch right away.

The world is a different place now with what virtually amounts to criminal companies trying to find every vulnerability that allows them to get into your system and either holding your data for ransom, extracting it for their own uses, or both. Even if you really do want to employ someone solely to stay on top of patching and watching for vulnerabilities, it's safer and often cheaper to let one of the big companies host your data.

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You are completely right. I just wanted to say that people fail even doing the right thing at a given moment, and they absolutely fail when the right thing is even changing.