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The Year of Threat

I am officially declaring 2017 the year of threat.

Doing my best to play the part of threat actor.( Defcon Tinfoil-Hat-Contest).

Following years of rhetoric about state-based attacks and who is at fault for what major system compromise the public seems to finally have come to grips with a few indisputable notes us security pros have been screaming at the tops of our lungs for a couple decades.

  1. There is (at least) a threat out there targeting every principal.
  2. The bad things threat actors cause mean more to the average person than the increasing the frequency of plastic rotation in a wallet.
  3. Things are obviously getting worse.

The public hasn’t grokked this one yet but:

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