xiv Preface
Chapter 8: e Love of Clouds and Incidents—
e Vain Search for Validation
Many folks in security are inwardly reective of their lives as CASEs
and conscious that the downward spiral of the industry has eectively
led to their hands being tied in being able to oer anything of any value
to their organizations. is has led to some unfortunate developments
in the industry that end up wasting a lot of corporate resources and
further damaging the reputation of security departments.
In Chapter 8, I rst examine the common premise that in security
we need a global incident database in order to “prove” the existence of
a threat (when there is some doubt expressed over risks, we can go to
some database of collected data concerning past