Unpopular opinion. I feel majority of cyber security senior managers and Directors in big 4 are incompetent. I have seen managers and seniors not understanding how web services work at all, or difference between encryption and hashing.

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Only majority? Are you sure it’s not like 99%?

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Majority of humans are incompetent

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You're right. That's because their main job is sales, not subject matter expertise. Yes, you need some expertise to be able to sell, but that bar isn't always high, and buzzwords can often fill gaps.

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True

You’re right.

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Yep, apparently you don’t need to know anything about security to sell it to a needy company.

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Big 4 and competency are not 2 things that come together in my experience. Oh, the trials and tribulations of being a generalist

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Dude. We are all faking it to some degree. We are consultants!

Uh oh did you just figure out all of consulting’s secret? But it’s not just cyber. We’re all making it up 😌

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