Pentesters - Witchers of the IT world

Have you noticed that the IT world is very huge, but at the same time there seems to be no place for information security in it, despite the fact that there are quite a few, and sometimes critically many , who actually need it?





Many people now create, develop products, but very few people want to pay for their safety, people look askance at such a decision, because many - mostly, of course, businessmen - do not want and are not ready to pay for something that will not bring them money later. and the potential "not to lose" for them does not seem to sound loud.





Under the cut, I would like to compare and draw a parallel (albeit, perhaps, in some places, it may seem exaggerated) between witchers and pentesters (witchers from the IT world).





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