Hollywood Cyber vs. Vegas Cyber

You can go one of two ways with depicting cybersecurity in movies and TV shows: you can depict it so seriously that every technical mistake generates an outraged howl from the infosec pros, or you can romanticize it so that it becomes a cult classic. On the one side, you have the complaints about CSI:Cyber; on the other, you have every picture of Angelina Jolie on rollerblades. You have neuroalternative people with colored hair saying, “If I can just get into the mainframe … there!” and then you have people lining up at RSAC to have their picture taken with Rami Malek. There’s Hollywood…

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