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RSA Conference: Rethink Hiring Hackers for Effective Security Solutions

Companies should stop hiring hackers to beef up security - not for ethical reasons but because they are no good at it, according to experts. Delegates at the RSA Security Conference in Amsterdam heard a panel of reformed hackers, police officers, members of the legal profession and corporate security experts launch scathing attacks on the abilities of most hackers.. . .. Companies should stop hiring hackers to beef up security - not for ethical reasons but because they are no good at it, according to experts. Delegates at the RSA Security Conference in Amsterdam heard a panel of reformed hackers, police officers, members of the legal profession and corporate security experts launch scathing attacks on the abilities of most hackers. The skills that make a good hacker are not the same as those required by an IT security officer, delegates were told. "Everyone thinks that if you know how to break into a system then you must know how to protect one. It's rubbish. I could teach a monkey to break into a system in four hours," claimed Ira Winkler, chief security strategist at Hewlett Packard. "While there are highly skilled technical hackers out there, they are the ones you never know about because they don't get caught." But most hackers are IT professionals in their 20s and 30s, suggesting that companies may be late in their realisation that cyber-poachers do not make good cyber-gamekeepers. The link for this article located at vnunet is no longer available. . Professionals debate the recruitment of cybercriminals for defense positions, asserting that they fall short in critical areas needed for safeguarding.. Hacking Skills, Cybersecurity Effectiveness, Corporate Security Risks. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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