Schneier on Security

Computerworld Hong Kong (CWHK): Are we actually any more secure today than we were five years ago?

Bruce Schneier (BS): In short, no. It’s interesting that every year we have new technologies, new products, new ideas, companies and research, yet people continue to ask why things are so bad with security? And the answer is that fundamentally the problem is complexity.

The Internet and all the systems we build today are getting more complex at a rate that is faster than we are capable of matching. So while security in reality is actually improving but the target is constantly shifting and as complexity grows, we are losing ground…