Christopher Skroupa: You’ve worked inside high-tech security companies, the Central Intelligence Agency, and in the world’s security research and testing company. Based on your experience, how effective do you believe technology is at preventing costly cyber disruptions?
John Pirc: Cyber security technology is able to prevent what it is designed to combat. The challenge is in the ability to catch the unknown threats. Unfortunately, security vendors are still using legacy detection methods and/or creating feature bloat within their product offering that just ends up reducing the security efficacy. If I were to provide a percentage of security product effectiveness I would give it around 70% and this would apply to the very large legacy security vendors.
