complicating

Found on XKCD.

After ROFLing from this cartoon, I realized the reason I laughed. And that is not funny at all.

What I realized is how we security folks sometimes seem to over complicate issues. How we fail to see that door bell button, and search for methods and tools and systems to increase awareness, add layers of security, or informing decision makers.

The good, old KISS comes to mind. Keep it simple, stupid.

The next time you sit there messing around, fooling yourself into creating even more complex systems, challenge yourself to see if there are other ways, more obvious ways, like the door bell. I bet you'll be surprised to see that the easy usually works out better than the complicated.