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Security Configuration: Natural Language is Insane! #shorts

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Configuring security with natural language is insane. Flags are clear ('true' or 'false'), but natural language is inefficient and ineffective for prevention. A major red flag. #CyberSecurity #Tech #Security
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very big problem with the approach on how you set up these things is that your setup is or your configuration is done via natural language and this should everybody who's into security I guess there are a few in this room this should raise a red flag because configuration in natural language is completely insane right usually what you want to do is if you want to enable a security feature then there is a flag for it and it tells you this is true, that's it. And then it's there and it does its thing. If you want to prevent things from happening, you'll now have to use natural language. And that's a big problem because natural language was never kind of I mean very

efficient or effective in preventing I mean you all talk to each other, right? And you all have people where talking to each other makes sense and where it doesn't, right? So and and so this is a bit big red