The Departed: Anti-virus software is to enterprise security architects and vendors and government agencies, essentially a compliance tax. Symantec broke all the unspoken rules of the information security industry — nay, the broader security industry! — to specifically throw its customer under the bus. The Times article mentioned that, during a three-month campaign, attackers installed “45 pieces of custom malware” The Times was foolishly cheap, but incompetent, or incompetent, in a manner that leaves the reader with only two possible inferences: “The Times was either incompetent or incompetent””]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2135414/shame-on-symantec-for-throwing-nyt-under-the-bus.html