Schneier on Security

Trying to predict the next security problem is the wrong way to go about things said Bruce Schneier, chief security technology officer at BT who was speaking at an event in Singapore.

“The more we try to predict, the more the bad guys react around us,” Schneier said. Contrary to popular IT security ideology, what was more important was the ability to react as well as mitigate and recover.

This attempt to predict where the next attack will come from is creating a gap between security and attackers where cyber criminals will be constantly evolving to develop and exploit new attack vectors with IT departments constantly playing catchup…