The need for truthful and honest product disclosure in IT Security
The exponential rise in cyber- attacks and the seemingly lock-step proliferation of security products to safeguard against said attacks seem to have created an unintelligible quagmire for consumers of IT security products. Simply put, consumers have to wade through marketing propaganda and techno-speak in their quest for some form of reasonable assurance of a safe, private internet experience.
It is high time that IT security companies provide transparent truthful and honest ‘Plain English’ disclosure of what threats a given product can and cannot protect against.
