Debunking the Growing Use of Misleading Claims and False Truisms in Cybersecurity

“Today, Rob Housman, the Executive Director of the Cyber Secure
Institute, put out this statement concerning two disturbing trends
in cybersecurity: the growing number of unsupportable security
claims and the increasing reliance on widely held beliefs as
opposed to tested and proven technologies. Housman said:

“One of the Institute’s primary objectives is to cut through the
morass of cyber security claims and counterclaims and distinguish
what is real and what is not. Lately, the Institute has seen a
significant uptick in the number of unsupportable, if not patently
false, security claims being made. We have also seen a growing
reliance upon widely held beliefs that may or may not be based in
proven fact.

“Along these lines we feel it necessary to highlight and debunk
two recent examples of these trends:”

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