IT Security

This is a huge one in movies and TV shows especially, but part of the problem is that IT security, or counter-security, is not a great spectator event. It’s very dry, does not involve a lot of flashing lights or even really anything on screen except in many cases a command prompt or progress bar, and is in most cases not a quick process.

That said, Mr. Robot, while not perfect, did a really good job of being a more realistic portrayal.

Expectation: “Oh my God. They’re hacking the system! Deploy counter measures!!! furious typing”

Reality: “So, we sent out a phishing test email and had a 61% click rate…”

We had the opposite problem. Mandatory training by an external company. They sent an email to everyone urging us to click here and do the training, otherwise our company might not be certified!

Even ignoring the pushy text, the entire mail looked sketchy as fuck, generic company name, low res logo of our company badly photoshopped into a banner.

So everyone ignored this obvious spam and our company lost the certification.