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The statement "Security is a process, not a product" refers to no _product_ can be a security strategy. _Processes_ are part of security. The security landscape keeps evolving and what was appropriate even 5 years ago may not be appropriate today. You have to evolve your strategy and countermeasures over time as part of your _processes_.

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The statement "Security is a process, not a product" refers to no _product_ can be a security strategy.

That's the negative part. The positive part is that security considerations have to run through an entire organization because every part of the organization is an "attack surface".

The whole concept of CrowdStrike is that it's there to prevent individual users from doing bad things. But that leaves the problem of CrowdStrike doing bad things. The aim of security as process is avoiding the "what-a-mole" situation that this kind of thinking produces.

that's not what a CEO wants to hear.

They want to hear that they can pay $X dollars to this service provider, and tick all of the cover-your-ass boxes in the security checklist; where $X is the cheapest option that fits the bill.

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