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Th e Lo v e o f CL o u d s
a n d In C I d e n T s —Th e va I n
se a r C h f o r va L I d a T I o n
So far in this book, I have lamented on the state of information secu-
rity oerings in the commercial world. I have commented heavily on
the deployment of inappropriate skills in the industry, and from this,
one can derive a host of problems that lead to other problems, which
leads us to a conclusion: the majority of corporate networks are wide-
open to attack, and chief executive ocers (CEOs) have never been
well-advised in security.
I commented in Chapter 3 about how the skill sets of security ana-
lysts have been reduced down to the level of parrot-fashion recital
of checklists of security standards and so-called best practices— ...