Unlike other departments, security teams often don’t have anything to do so this research is a good use of free time.
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Although, it wouldn’t be abnormal for a security team to have free time, and dedicate it to researching an emerging technology whether it directly contributes to the business goals or not. Of course I’m not talking about a security team that is reading log files from their SIEM while sitting in a SOC.