SOFTWARE
“ Fostering a culture of good cyber hygiene ... is just as necessary in data centre security as a firewall ”
FREDRIK FORSLUND VP ENTERPRISE & CLOUD ERASURE SOLUTIONS , BLANCCO
for - not for hours - but 30 or 40 minutes , all hell broke loose here ,” said Rafi Sela , the president of AR Challenges , back in a 2009 interview with The Toronto Star . The solution , he went on to explain , was the “ Israeli-fication ” of airport security - a system which used well-trained humans rather than flashy tech in order to create what Cathal Kelly , a reporter for the Star called at the the time “ a system that protects life and limb without annoying you to death .”
Sayer , who definitely possesses a distaste for mincing his words almost as strong as Sela ’ s , adds : “ nearly all modern airport security is useless theatre and , in fact , the most secure airport in the world is also the one with the least technical systems and the most human countermeasures .”
He isn ’ t the only one with a healthy distrust of high-tech silver bullets . “ Businesses can obsess over the software and security solutions they think they need to protect their organisation and its data all they want ,” says Forslund . “ But those
98 June 2021