Frankly Speaking - Why security is hard

The technical problems don't make it hard

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Hiring still seems to be crazy in cybersecurity despite everything going on. When a security engineer is laid off, he/she is almost immediately bombarded with more interviews. I still have many friends with open reqs, so if anyone is reading this and is looking for something, please reach out, and I can help connect!

LET’S BE FRANK

In my last newsletter, I discussed why security is easy. In this newsletter, I will take the opposite side. In particular, I was inspired by this comment on my LinkedIn by Emilio Escobar, the CISO at Datadog:

It’s a vague but very deep comment. In essence, the core theme of what I’m going to discuss is that security is hard because security people can’t get out of their own way!