Spurs almost got relegated
Arsenal won the Premier League
Spurs fans have no right laughing at Arsenal after they blew their biggest game in over a quarter of a century m
But…..
Google Chrome is rolling out device-bound session credentials to all users. Session cookies get cryptographically tied to your device, so stolen cookies can't be replayed from a different machine. Attackers who exfiltrate your cookie database get nothing usable.
This is what the near future may look like:
a widening gap between the economics on the attacker side and the defender side.
Attackers will be able to move faster, scale better and operate far more efficiently. Some of them will even start going after smaller organizations and private individuals again, simply because it becomes economically viable to do so. With unrestricted AI assistance, fast iteration and low-cost tooling, they can do much more in the same amount of time than before.
Defenders are in a very different position. We are constrained by policy, data restrictions, approval processes, testing requirements, QA cycles and the general need to build stable, trustworthy software for enterprise use.
That imbalance is going to get ugly.
But I also think this will be our catharsis as an industry. A lot of assumptions that felt solid or even foundational may change over the next 24 months.
Harry Kane literally outscored Messi and Ronaldo in 2017, but barely got any credit. That's how good he has always been. One of the greatest strikers of all time!