With the exception of a passing comment about digital forensics on a desktop computer and email controls, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist John Carreyrou, seemingly has nothing to do with information security. It’s an extraordinarily fascinating and riveting book. And once digested, there are a number of lessons that anyone involved in information security can learn from.
A quick recap: Theranos was a health technology company that claimed it created a revolutionary method to perform a large battery of blood tests from a few drops of blood taken from the finger.