Security Is Fucked
Dec 2024
Security is fucked. That’s the truth. We’ve built an entire industry around trying to make the digital world safe, and it’s somehow getting worse. We’ve got the smartest minds, endless frameworks, and tools that promise "complete protection." Yet every day someone clicks a link they shouldn’t, uploads something they shouldn’t, or plugs in a mysterious USB drive labeled "Payroll 2025."
The bad guys are getting smarter, sure. They’re using AI, deepfakes, and whatever new tech rolls out before the defenders can even pronounce it. But that’s not the real problem. The real problem is people. We are profoundly, stubbornly, gloriously stupid. Someone can get three MFA prompts in a row at 3 a.m. and still hit "approve" like they’re tapping a like button on a cat video. No amount of next-gen AI threat detection will save us from ourselves.
Systems are too complex to secure, but we keep adding more layers anyway: clouds on top of clouds, vendors on top of vendors, and dashboards that no one actually reads. It’s like watching someone try to fix a leaky roof by building another roof on top of it, then wondering why the house collapses.
Money doesn’t help either. The security budget is always "tight," unless it’s for buying a shiny new tool that promises to "solve phishing forever." Spoiler: it won’t. Because Gary from accounting is still going to open that attachment. And when something inevitably goes wrong, everyone gathers in a room to nod solemnly and talk about "lessons learned," which translates to "we’ll forget this happened until it happens again."
The best part? Some organizations know exactly where their weak spots are and just shrug. "Risk accepted," they say, as if that’s a strategy and not a polite way of saying, "We’ll deal with it when it burns."
So yes, threats are more advanced. Systems are more complicated. Budgets are a mess. But none of it beats the raw power of human stupidity. That’s the one thing attackers can always count on. And as long as that’s true, security will stay exactly what it is: completely, irreversibly, gloriously fucked.
So what’s the fix? Stop sugarcoating it. Start being brutal about security. It’s time for Security Brutalism, honest, stripped down, and built to survive reality, not theory.