Cybersecurity's Lament: There are No Cooks in Space

Cybersecurity's Lament: There are No Cooks in Space
Cybersecurity staff are on edge for the same reason that there are no cooks on the ISS: Organizations are carefully watching expenses for jobs that don't require dedicated team members.


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There are no cooks in space.


Think about it: When we picture the great seagoing voyages of discovery, there were cooks, chandlers, medics, and all sorts of other support staff. But that's not the case in space. And the reasons why have critical echoes for professionals in cybersecurity.


Today, it costs roughly $10,000 to put one pound into orbit. If you pick a weight of 150 pounds for a space cook, that means it would cost $1.5 million just to get the cook into orbit. Add in food, clothes, and all the other material required to support a human, and it starts to be an awful lot of money for someone to sling hash for astronauts.


The cost of putting stuff in orbit means that everything that goes into the payload section of a rocket has to be directly tied to the mission at hand. There just isn't room in the budget for much in the way of support.


When you talk to executives in enterprise IT today, you hear some of the same language. Everything -- everything -- that companies are doing right now is focused on bringing in revenue. If it isn't tied to the balance sheet's top line, it's not a priority.


Core CompetencyWe all have to admit that security is rarely tied to increasing revenue. Business trends have somewhat ..

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