You can’t change what you tolerate
- Thursday, March 10, 2011, 7:50
- Articles, Threat Research
Attending a recent meeting I heard one of the speakers say “You can’t change what you tolerate.” Apparently it’s a quote from Cesar Millan (the dog whisperer) but it really struck a chord in me regarding web application security and overall information risk management. How can we possibly expect to make things better when we aren’t even aware that changes need to be made?
So many people in management choose to ignore the realities of what’s taking place in their environments. Disregarding the law, industry regulations, fiduciary responsibilities and even “best practices”, many continue to tolerate poor security across the board resulting in abuse of their business systems. Then these same people wonder why they’re being targeted and bad things continue to happen day after day.
I agree with what Cesar Millan said: indeed, you cannot change what you tolerate. Nor can you fix what you don’t acknowledge. We see this in so many aspects of life in things like our jobs, our relationships and (especially) our health. Apparently it’s human nature. If we let this “sweep it under the rug and pretend like it’s not there” behavior affect us personally I can’t imagine how we’ll ever reach a point where we address this problem – without (continue reading...)
As we have already get used to it, we normally can’t change what we tolerate for a long time. Sometimes, we would not think out a way to solve the problem before it does affect our daily routine.