https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/detained-tufts-student...

Some functional skills are rarer than others, some are simply harder to master than others, and some are both.

To me it would be unfair to force equal pay for very unequal work.

I’m pretty sure I - as an ignorant person in this area - could figure out if people around me sometimes ate something, and then got sick within a few days, that maybe I shouldn’t eat that thing.

I doubt I’d be able to figure out that I should eat something on the basis of people getting sick after not eating a whole bunch of things for a few months.

0 - at least one source I found claimed scurvy symptoms could show up as soon as one month after “severe” vitamin C deficiency, but that “more noticeable symptoms would appear later.

If google wants to maintain those audit findings, which they’ll need to do to keep most of their customers, that’s going to limit the kind of data collection they can do. Unless, of course, you want to propose a new conspiracy theory (which I guess would be par for the course in this thread) that Google is going to lie to their auditors to get at that sweet, sweet data (most of which they already have for their GCP customers and don’t need to buy Wiz to obtain.)

You’re responding to something that isn’t there.

I realize reading is a very difficult skill to master, but maybe -- just maybe -- you couldn't verify that "claim" because I never made it.

Analysts sometimes refer to the enterprise networking market as "Cisco and the Seven Dwarves". Nobody has ever said that about Symantec (prior to the Broadcom acquisition) or Palo Alto Networks.

It is often the case that in a new security product category, the products are so different, it is hard to collect them together in a single category with a straight face. Example: next generation AV circa 2015-2016. AV was a well-worn product category. All of the legacy products did basically the same thing. More or less at the same time, a bunch of new products came to market that all claimed the mantle of "next generation AV:"

* Bit9 did process whitelisting, later adding Carbon Black for endpoint forensics

* Fire Eye had a proto-EDR solution

* Cylance did ML-based malware detection

* Palo Alto Networks had an exploit-mitigation focused agent that they bolted ML-based malware detection onto.

The industry slowly converged on EDR as the sort-of successor to endpoint AV budgets.

A few years later, the cloud security space was the same fragmented mess. Some were what we now know as CSPM, some were glorified DLP solutions, some container security solutions, etc.

You'll find former-intelligence blob operators in a great many cyber security companies. Including former American intel employees[0]. Hell, the CIA basically has their own VC fund[1].

Also, there is zero evidence any of these people are currently acting at the behest of their former employers, apart from obviously the CIA venture fund acts at the behest of the CIA.

0 - Robert M Lee https://dragos.com, Keith Alexander (formerly https://ironnet.com,) amongst many others

1 - In Q Tel https://www.iqt.org/

Just because you aren’t the target market for something doesn’t mean it isn’t real or valuable.

Source: used to compete against them. I no longer have any dog in this fight.