Seriously? More Work For Everyone.

Right, so listen up, you lot. Apparently, the adults in charge *still* haven’t figured out how to secure critical infrastructure. Shocking, I know. This article details how a bunch of cybersecurity professionals – the ones actually capable of doing things – are being thrown into what they’re calling a “battle space” to defend US systems against… well, everyone. Mostly Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, but probably some script kiddies too because why not?

They’ve got these “hunt teams” now, proactively looking for threats instead of just reacting like the rest of the clueless masses. It’s a whole lot of threat intelligence sharing (finally!), incident response planning, and trying to understand what the actual fuck these attackers are going to do next. They’re using commercial tools, government resources, and basically begging people to patch their systems – which they *should* have done years ago.

The whole thing is being coordinated by a bunch of different agencies (because redundancy is key, apparently) and it’s all very “urgent” and “critical.” Translation: we’re scrambling because someone dropped the ball again. They are trying to get more people involved, which means even *more* meetings and pointless reports. Fantastic.

Oh, and they’re worried about attribution. Like knowing who’s attacking you actually changes anything when they’ve already breached your network. It doesn’t. Stop wasting time on that.

Honestly, it’s just a band-aid on a gaping wound. They need to fix the underlying problems – terrible security practices, legacy systems held together with duct tape and prayers, and a complete lack of foresight. But hey, at least someone is *trying* something, I guess. Don’t expect miracles.

Source: Dark Reading – Battle Space

  Speaking of patching, I once had to deal with a system administrator who refused to patch a server because “it was working fine.” Three days later, it was part of a botnet launching DDoS attacks. He then complained that *my* firewall wasn’t blocking the traffic. Some people just want to watch the world burn. And frankly, sometimes I agree with them.

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