A bit quiet lately. Sometimes I wonder if there’s more to say that I haven’t covered in the 500+ posts in Beast or Buddha. (The really interesting stuff, you can’t write about for obvious reasons). What do you do? Continue to rehash the old stuff? Sometimes!….which brings me to an interesting discussion.
We were asked to do a presentation recently on “emerging threats” at a business forum for IT Security and Risk Management professionals. Seems straightforward enough but when looking back over previous such presentations we’ve been doing over the years, nothing much was changing – in particular our recommendations on how organisations should be dealing with “emerging threats”. We could have almost just pulled out “Emerging Threats” presentation, (circa 2002) and done it word for word, (with only a few very minor wording and definition changes, eg; “Cloud”, “APT” etc 
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Should we be calling these presentations; “Emerging Responses”? It’s the response part that is in most cases yet to “emerge” effectively! The “threats” (most of them), emerged a long time ago. In many cases, we just call them different things now because we’ve failed to deal with them properly at the time, so it’s easier to rename something – makes it all seem that little bit new, and covers up to a degree for failures in the past.
Am I being unfair? Keen on your thoughts.
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