Human Security honors its late co-founder with a fellowship to fund smart and passionate cybersecurity advocates to do open source work for common good.
Yesterday, while running a session at work on Rust, I offhandedly remarked ‘I think we can all agree that when writing unit tests, private methods shouldn’t be directly tested except in some special situations’ and to my suprise, I had thought wrong. A mini-debate erupted where various people argued mutually incompatible viewpoints. We quickly moved on from the debate but I was left a little embarrassed that I had misjudged the developer zeitgeist.
While systemic cyber risk has become a hot topic, it deserves even more (and closer) attention than it has so far received. How serious and widespread is systemic cyber risk, and what should be done about it?