The 2022 Naughty and Nice List

It's the holiday season when children all over the world cross their fingers in the hope that they don't end up on a certain red-clad big man's naughty list. Turns out, we at Rapid7 have a similar tradition, only we're the ones making the list and there's a whole lotta naughty going on (not like that, get your heads out of the gutter).

We've asked a few of our experts to share what in cybersecurity deserves to be on the naughty list, and what needs to be on the nice list. Some of these represent personal gripes, others are industry-wide, and still others are specific to certain aspects of what we do all day.

Obviously, we all lived through the many levels of Shell this year so we are taking that as the quintessential 2022 naughty entry. These are a few others that you may or may not have been tracking, but are worth thinking about as we put this year to bed.

Here, without further fan fare, is our non-exhaustive, thoroughly delightful, slightly deranged, 2022 Cybersecurity Naughty and Nice List. Enjoy.

The Naughty List

Virtual Private Nopes: I try, really hard, to take a charitable read on people's motivations. So, normally, it takes a lot to get on my bad side. That said: I nominate the entire consumer VPN industry for this year's Naughty List. This is based on a paper published by the University of Maryland titled, Investigating Influencer VPN Ads on YouTube, by Omer Akgul, Richard Roberts, Moses Namara, Dave Levin, and Michelle L. Mazurek.

Not to spoil the surprise, but the study shows that many consumer VPN influencer ads contain potentially misleading claims, ..

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