If you specialize in network security, or if you’re a network administrator or IT manager who is tasked with hiring security consultants, you might find this recent article over on ComputerWorld, Why Security Pros Fail (and What to Do About It), interesting. It asks some pertinent questions, such as whether security pros are learning from past mistakes and rising to the ever-increasing challenge of keeping our networks safe, and explores some of the common traps that cause security pros to fail in their missions.
It’s a fairly lengthy read, but worth the time as it makes you think about some issues and consider whether the most commonly proposed solutions are really what’s needed to improve security overall.