Putting An End To Security Snake Oil | Fortinet Blog

Imagine it’s the late 19th century. Modern medicine is in its infancy. Folk cures, snake oil, and patent medicines are still being peddled to naive consumers and a nascent market for legitimate pharmaceuticals struggles to balance profit and genuine benefit for patients. A desperate public, struggling with diseases like tuberculosis and polio needed real medicine but settled for whatever miracle cure they could find (or what early marketers told them would work).

Then, in 1906, Congress passed the Food and Drugs Act, giving new powers to the US Bureau of Chemistry, the agency that would eventually become the FDA. Suddenly, medications had to comply with standards for purity and formulations, the groundwork was laid for rigorous clinical trials, and marketing became more about truth and science instead of inflated claims and potential profits.

Putting An End To Security Snake Oil | Fortinet Blog