Dear Information Security Community, Stop Using This Image

March 10, 2018March 10, 2018Security

Dear InfoSec Community and Internet at Large,

Stop using this image to portray “hackers” or “attackers” or really anything else. Look, I get it, the community has evolved. In fact, I’ll recognize that we are no longer a community consisting solely of passionate hobbyists, enthusiasts and professionals. We are now an industry and that means our community now includes people with little or no interest in security other than how to profit from it. What this all comes down to is very simple, people putting together presentations and papers do not realize how over used this image has been. So let me point it out to for the world. STOP USING THIS IMAGE!

Montejam

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Michael is an Information Security Executive with more than 14 years of security services, security strategy development, risk management, security research, vulnerability management, threat management, incident response, integration, and network and data security experience. Michael specializes in Executive-level security advisory. Michael has experience within the financial, technology, retail, power and energy, healthcare and public sectors. He has previously functioned as a technical and practice leader of Managed and Professionals Security Services within IBM as the North America Director of Security Intelligence, as a Senior Threat Researcher on the IBM X-Force, as an industry analyst, and as public sector vulnerability management coordinator and incident responder.

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