Tenable CEO blasts 'smoke and mirrors' of cybersecurity industry

guest · Mar 19, 2019

Tenable CEO blasts 'smoke and mirrors' of cybersecurity industry
March 19, 2019
https://www.cyberscoop.com/amit-yoran-tenable-rsa-conference-cybersecurity-industry/

A good chunk of the cybersecurity industry is “smoke and mirrors,” with companies hawking shiny products that aren’t needed to block most hacks, Tenable CEO Amit Yoran said in an interview with CyberScoop earlier this month

“It’s an industry that has fed and continues to feed, to a large extent, off of fearmongering,” Yoran said on the sidelines of the vendor-happy RSA Conference in San Francisco.

He pointed to a 2018 speech by David Hogue, a National Security Agency official, who said the NSA had not responded to an intrusion that exploited a zero-day vulnerability in over two years.
“To me, that’s like a ‘holy s–t’ moment,” Yoran said. But because the industry is “vendor-driven and hype-driven, you don’t hear people talk about that. But that’s the reality.”
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Minimalist · Sep 12, 2019

Tenable wants to see the end of the 'nation-state attacked us' excuse

The "nation-state attacked us" excuse, according to Tenable chairman and CEO Amit Yoran, is not a valid excuse for having a weak system be compromised.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/tenable-wants-to-see-the-end-of-the-nation-state-attacked-us-excuse/

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