Security perimeter concept

The need for teamwork in the field of information security did not arise yesterday: modern realities dictate to us the need to unite our efforts, no matter if we are talking about partners or competitors in the market, because ultimately the goal of information security is to protect the client. That is why, at the dawn of the Internet, various alliances and alliances began to arise.

But almost none of them has proven to be large enough, persistent, or influential enough to dramatically affect what is happening in the information security space of products and data. Moreover, the very nature of such cooperation, regardless of market conditions, is directly opposite to the concept of free competition. And in general, the joint search for exploits and ways to counter hackers is vicious, because it is based on the tools for hacking the product – which can result in banal industrial espionage, covered with good goals of collective security. And why not watch your direct competitor fight off a hacker attack? Such a typical: “I am sitting by the river, and the corpse of my enemy is floating by.”

But this “corpse” then poisons the whole “river”, because in the heads of potential customers, including the heads of those people who sign budgets and implement new solutions, the names of the companies do not linger, but the concept itself. As a result, we still have “clouds are dangerous”, “data is stolen daily” and so on.

And now we have a world where information, including information on the topic of information security, is valuable, closed and extremely reluctant to share it. And for this reason, hackers win, and with confidence.