Security Industry
topic on 3 shows · 8 statements across 4 episodes
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8 statements about Security Industry, every show
Bimani: Security Clients Buy Cheap Services Merely for Insurance Liability Shields
“The security industry is a commodity and a service industry where clients are usually just looking at the bottom dollar. Rather than the quality of the service they can get because they see us as a shield against lawsuits and that's how they want to use us. So…”
Bimani: Fixed expenses like vehicles and office leases harm security companies
“One of the biggest issues with, in the security industry is a lot of people buy security services, not security services, security software, vehicles offices, and it's hard expenses. You can't get rid of them, even if you lose clients.”
Bimani: Security Guards Are Jaded From Frequent Exploitation by Industry Employers
“A lot of security guards are jaded because they're screwed over by the security industry very often.”
Bimani: Bar Security Insurance Costs $23,000 Per Client Annually
“In the guard and the bar industry, you're not allowed to provide bar security unless you have a insurance and it costs roughly 23,000 dollars a year per client. A lot of guard companies don't have that. So they're leaving their guards their clients exposed to …”
de la Garza: Traditional security industry runs counter to actual security
“So for a long time now, the security industry has existed as kind of an anathema to actually making things more secure, and this has been incredibly problematic with a lot of the things that have happened in terms of the way that the industry has developed.”
De la Garza: Security industry spending fails to address root causes
“From a spend perspective, the security industry hasn't done a great job when you look at what we spend all of our money on in addressing the actual root causes of the breaches.”
Enterprises have reached a limit on consuming additional point security products
“And so if I think if you stand back and you take a high level heat map of the security industry, I don't think it's like building another mechanism or another point product. That's the problem now. We've actually got to a point that we can't really consume the…”
Falkowitz: Cyber threat actors display predictable human patterns in data
“Cyber actors are no different than you and me, right? Which means that they open themselves up to a variety of predictable human patterns that can be observed in data that's very different from the way the security industry handles them today, right?”