Security and hacked systems are realized after they’ve been hacked.
What is Security testing?
Security testing is a technique that helps determine how well an information system protects data and how secure it is against vulnerabilities, ensuring verification of Confidentiality, Integrity, and Non-repudiation.
Why is security important?
If you understand that ‘there are risks and costs to a program of action–but they are far less than the long range cost of comfortable inaction’ Then you’d have understood why security is important.
Why is Security still ignored despite being important?
Security and hacked systems are realized after they’ve been hacked. Most companies value UI/UX/Functionality/Automation and this and that and what not – but they don’t even talk about how secure their app. website or system is, because “Security and hacked systems are realized after they’ve been hacked.”
You must be still wondering if security is so important, why do most companies and startups ignore the security of their applications, products, apps., websites?
If you’re still wondering, you’ll be answered soon:
- You meet your must, you rarely do what you ‘Should’.
- You always do what you ‘Must’
- However, you realize your ‘Must’ over your ‘Should’ only once you’ve felt the need to.
Security testing and analysis of products is a ‘Should’ for most, it becomes a ‘Must’ when sites, apps. etc. have been hacked. One has to act before ‘Should’ becomes ‘Must’.
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards. — Gene Spafford
If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.
Because
Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds, and be stolen without your knowledge.
Hopefully, it helps understanding why ‘Security’ is a ‘Must’ and should be given importance without any doubts.
Signing off,
