Uber Database Breach Exposed Information of 50,000 Drivers, Company Confirms
I work in info sec, and in one of the "Who's Hiring" posts a few months ago (do we still do those? I haven't seen one in a while) I asked "why are startups never hiring security guys?", because I never see a security engineer position open in those topics. I never got a response. To me that indicates the response is "we don't".<p>Listen, guys. I don't care how small you are. If you are handling PII or credit card data or anything that, if leaked, would harm your business or your customers, <i>you need a security guy</i>. Not a programmer who knows some security stuff. Not a manager who checks off the online PCI self-assessment. Not "we outsource to an MSSP". At least one security guy, full time. Make sure that everything you do is run past that person. If you're so busy that you can't run everything past that person, hire another.<p>It's not a joke. Stop fucking ruining people's lives. It's 2015, four years past "the year of the breach" [1]. Get with the program. It's not okay to have a breach. It's not. It doesn't matter how much money you saved from not having a security guy or the tools they need. Get someone who knows what they're talking about and <i>listen to them</i>.<p>[1] <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/IBM-2011-is-The-Year-of-the-Security-Breach-224465.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://news.softpedia.com/news/IBM-2011-is-The-Year-of-the-S...</a>