Well-known cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike greets travelers who arrive at San Francisco International Airport with a rather bold claim advertised throughout the terminals. The advertisements pose a pernicious yet seemingly tidy answer: “Yesterday’s Antivirus Can’t Stop Today’s Cyber Attacks. Crowdstrike Falcon Can.”
Irresponsible hyperbole? Or is it a pitch made in good faith, albeit one as confident as it is ignorant? It doesn’t much matter. It is 2017, and we now have ample evidence proving that the false promise of so much cybersecurity — that risk can be entirely eliminated with one simple program — will, barring a technological revolution, never be realized.
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Source: Forbes