Schneier on Security

Bruce Schneier has been writing about security issues on his blog, his blog, Schneier on Security, since 2004, and in a monthly newsletter since 1998. He writes books, articles, and academic papers. Currently, he is the Chief Technology Officer of Resilient Systems, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, and a board member of Electronic Frontier Foundation.

What do you see as the greatest cyber risks today?

I don’t like ranking risks, and I worry that concentrating on the ‘greatest’ risk obscures all of the other risks. Basically, the big cyber risks are what everyone is talking about. It’s not like they’re hidden or subtle. They’re risks against our data: copying it, deleting it, modifying it, barring us access from it. They’re follow-on risks, because the Internet is so pervasive in modern society. They’re everything we’re actually worried about…