The age old ploy of using geek-speak to dupe management and users is in danger of backfiring upon IT professionals according to experts gathering at an international industry shindig somewhere in Belgium.
Specifically, hapless users confronted with jargonated gobbledygook pertaining to Internet security threats are at risk of doing themselves more harm than good by glazing over, pretending it isn’t happening and hence falling victim to all manner of malware nasties.
Duval - popular in Belgium
“There are some people in the profession who to some degree enjoy the mystification of what they do,” claimed ex-US Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff, clearly after having consumed a few too many bottles of Duval.
You are damn right Mr. er… Chertoff.
“With cybersecurity, the task is to make the architecture more user-friendly and to teach people better,” he added, before banging on about his old army stricture about being able to call an entrenching tool an entrenching tool (or perhaps not).
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