Comment by everdrive

I think this article makes a lot of good points, but those are overshadowed by the tone, and the seemingly personal grievance regarding security holding up software. In this specific sense, I think the article misses the mark. Many of the criticisms made about cybersecurity are valid, however whether or not they are valid does not really have much to do with whether they should be holding up software more, or less. This primarily seems like a problem of incentive: the security folks are not incentivized to help move the software along. They're incentivized to find issues, and when erring on the side of caution, hold up software deployment. And this holds true even if, as the author claims, the cybersecurity field is full of puffed-up pseudo-intellectuals.