Today’s blog post – not that there are many of you out there reading this in the “dead zone” between Christmas and New Years – but today’s post was going to be on the ridiculous travel restrictions that they put into place after the averted attack on Christmas, how taking away blankets weren’t adding to security and just making people uncomfortable. Its security theatre, I know, but security theatre is only theoretically worth something if it actually makes people feel safer.
Scanning people’s shoes doesn’t really help with security, but it does make people feel safer. The security measures put into place these past couple of days seemed arbitrary, and didn’t really seem like there was a reason to do it at all, except to make people uncomfortable. That, in turn, actively works against the façade of security theatre, making people feel uncomfortable knowing that the people who were supposed to be looking out for us didn’t know what the heck they were doing.
And I was going to write something or another about network performance – going to tie in the message that network security is important, but too often, it seems like a lot of corporate security restrictions are in place that don’t really make people’s networks more secure – but do slow down the network’s performance.
It might have been a good post, except that CBS reported a half hour ago, as I was half-done with the first draft of this post that those in-flight restrictions have, in fact, been eased.
So, just when I get all worked up and annoyed over the FAA doing something that is, in my opinion, stupid, they go ahead and do something smart to correct it, and it just throws off my day.
So, to try to bring this all back to the beginning again, this is probably how a lot of people in enterprises feel when dealing with network performance problems. No matter how quickly the problem gets fixed, the user only remembers that there was a problem – not that it was fixed quickly. This is why you need to be proactive about network performance, and prevent problems, not just repair them.
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