Psychological Issues in the Security Industry

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve unfortunately had the experience of dealing with a number of psychological issues (either personally or through personal connections) during my tenure in the security fold. I hope to shed some light on them and encourage others to take them seriously.

If you are hoping this post will be some grand reveal of security engineers going psychotic and stabbing users who enter passwords into phishing pages with poor grammar and spelling, web site administrators who can’t be bothered to set up HTTPS, and ransomware authors, then I hate to disappoint you. If, on the other hand, you’re interested in observations of people who have experienced various psychological problems while in the security industry, then I’ll probably still disappoint, just but not as much.

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Psychological Issues in the Security Industry