KDB Systems

A while back I wrote a blog post com­par­ing com­puter secu­rity to walk­ing in the rain. This morn­ing it was rain­ing pretty hard dur­ing my morn­ing walk. It wasn’t rain­ing quite as hard as when I wrote the pre­vi­ous post but west coast­ers know what “rain­ing pretty hard” means. For the rest of you, it was rain­ing as hard as you’ll prob­a­bly ever expe­ri­ence unless you live in a rain for­est. For some rea­son I decided not to use the same gear as in the blog post. I had the Halti jacket and Tilley hat on. I didn’t take an umbrella, wear gloves, or wear rain pants. I ignored my own advice from this blog post about secu­rity being a marathon where we can never relax. In half a block my pants were soaked through. A few min­utes later my hands were cold. I had to cut my usual walk in half because I was get­ting cold and wet. Com­puter secu­rity is sim­i­lar. Use the appro­pri­ate tools. Don’t take short­cuts. Never relax or get complacent.