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Cyber security loopholes, just because you have invested in new “state of the art” defences it does not mean there are not ways round it

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Last Updated: 01 October 2018

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When you are researching new technical security controls you need to think like me and think how can it be broken and if it can, keep looking for a plug or new vendor till you have solved all possible eventualities which is of course next to impossible. We have all heard the term next generation security (often firewalls or UTMs) or military/banking grade security (encryption usually). In many cases these products are not amazing. Just look at InfoSec Europe in London and every year there is a “craze”, machine learning, artificial intelligence or threat intelligence crop up most years. How can 100+ products all doing the same thing work?

The problem is many people do not think about these loopholes and even if they did would they spend the extra cash trying to close them? In the past I have spent weeks researching a particular problem and during that time I read up and test out tens of products per category. E.g. email security gateways. Even the ones that do seem good, at times do not do what they are meant to do.

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