Expert Roundup: Why Can’t Cybersecurity Be Simpler?

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Security is sometimes too complicated for all parties involved and affected. Let’s explore why.

Time and time again, people ask:

Why can’t cybersecurity be simpler?

This question is not asked just by regular users confused by the “techno-babble” or enraged by information leaks.
It’s also increasingly asked by business owners, analysts, journalists and even the people involved in securing information, whether sysadmins for small companies or even high-level executives in multinational organizations.

This is why we thought to go straight to the source to find the best responses. Last time, we asked specialists to say whether they think that Internet security is a losing battle or not and their responses were memorable. Today, we asked highly accomplished cybersecurity experts from various infosec fields another tricky question and they were gracious enough to provide their insights.

If you’re a regular user angry at your data being exposed to various leaks and cyber attacks, you will get a behind-the-scenes look at the reasons why these incidents happen. If you’re someone involved in handling customers’ data, these perspectives will prove to be just as illuminating.

We wanted to provide you valuable, often hard to find perspectives. We managed to make a great start to answer a simple-looking, but an actually difficult and ramified question.

"Why can’t cybersecurity be simpler?"

Use the links below to quickly navigate the experts’ replies.

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