5 Famous Last Words in Cybersecurity

Try and avoid these massive facepalms in your career

I have worked for more than 20 years in Cybersecurity and that means witnessing some serious goof-ups

Being on the giving and receiving end of IT Security Reviews and Audits means you get to see people make some major mistakes and not even be aware of them !

So .. without further delay here are some famous sentences I have seen people say when I used to be an IT auditor many years back

Hearing these meant that alarm bells would start ringing immediately !

“I am positive that we patched system last year .. ”

If you have a critical system and you are not aware of when it was patched .. then this might be a good time to take a long , hard look at how you are managing your vulnerability management process

Patching is not as sexy as malware analysis or digital forensics but missing patches is still easily the most common way in which companies get compromised !

“The security questionnaire ? Sure .. we have it saved on Google Drive”

Saving the security posture of your company on a publicly accessible folder ?