Great game, great immersive universe: Space werewolves & werebears - cool and believable Space Ninjas, Samurai & Crusaders - yeah, I can buy that Giant fighting robots, AI replications of historical figures - that tracks Alien monsters of all sorts - of course! Space alliance of France, Scotland, USA & Russia - Yeah, cool prediction of how political alliances might shift. LACK OF CORPERATE SECURITY UNIT HACKING PROFILE - OUTRAGEOUS AND UNACCEPTABLE!!! Okay, so I'm being a bit over the top for the sake of humor, but I legitimately think there should be a CSU hacker profile. I confess to being biased, but I do think it's unrealistic that Corporations would overlook their own hacking specialists in their security teams. Information security is already a significant and important concern for corporations. Surely the future corporations of Neo-Terra are not burying their heads in the sand about the threat of hacking to their infrastructure and confidential secrets. I'm not saying it should be an end all uber hacker, but give them a simple hacking device and a firewall tinbot, because I wouldn't respect any company that doesn't have a firewall guy.
I'm not saying a hacker CSU is a bad idea (it's a good one) but generally speaking Tunguska are world leaders in providing outsourced high quality infosec to the corporations of the Human Sphere
I would argue that is similar to saying CSU shouldn't exist at all because Druze and other Mercenary companies would be the go to for outsourced high quality guns for hire. The PanOceanian military-industrial complex would 100% have regulations around giving the equivalent of a foreign national access to their defense contractor's systems. They might hire Tunguskan Pennetration testers on a duplicative but empty test environment, or get a design review from them. I'm also not advocating them being the top end hackers, just that they would exist. That would cover a lot of companies with lower cybersecurity budgets making due without Tunguskan premium prices, which would be a whole tangent of complaints from me, but I assure you is a thing. ~Domino (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
I mean, I work reasonably adjacent to system security as well, but generally speaking they don't put guns in my hands. We've got people employed to carry those. Having in-house corporate infosec doesn't mean it's necessarily a good idea to give them assault rifles. Then again, they're making CSU do lots of very interesting drugs so why not jacking them up with a hacking device, right? It's cool and cyberpunk.
Sounds like we're just negotiating loadouts now :) hacking device, stun gun and a flash pulse? (-3 to bs) and (-3 dodge) if you really want to cheeky about it. As a counterpoint though, Rem Racers seem kind of like glorified remote control car enthusiasts, and they carry sub machine guns and light shotguns. I guess with hidden space ninja hackers, super-jumping werewolves and aliens impersonating bob from accounting, the future is a bit more physically insecure place. The existence of the mind wipe scenario, those alarming physicals threats, and the fact that hacking is done within 8 (meters?) could suggest the infosec risk assessments result in assault rifles and gun handling competencies for all personal. "Security is everyone’s responsibility" ~CISO of Auxbot industrial llc (Note: while I am throwing around my security certification, I do not take myself, these posts, or any other posts I make that seriously. If this small campaign succeeds though, I would make it a personal rule to always take a CSU hacker a self insert and hide him like the coward I am.)
Appropriate proxy for corporate security unit hacker profile facing killer hackers driving Szallamandra