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Source: CSO Online - Posted by Anthony Pell
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The security community has grown to depend on some basic technologies in the fight against cyber thieves, such as antivirus software and firewalls. But are practitioners clinging to tools that outlived their usefulness long ago? Were those tools ever really useful to begin with?
CSOonline.com recently conducted an unscientific survey on the matter, asking those questions to a variety of security forums on LinkedIn and following it up with e-mails and phone conversations. What follows are four technologies several cited as overrated in today's security fight.
We'll follow up next week with security technologies many believe are underrated. It's safe to predict that some of the technologies on this list will also appear there.
1. Antivirus
This one isn't a total surprise. Security experts for years have been complaining that antivirus has grown obsolete because the security vendors can't keep up with all the AV definition changes required to thwart every new piece of malware. In fact, some of the more advanced security practitioners of the world are ditching it altogether. In a previous story on the subject, David Litchfield, a leading database security expert who has authored such books as "Oracle Forensics," "The Oracle Hacker's Handbook" and "The Database Hacker's Handbook," summed up why he's lost faith in AV:
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