How Can We Build a More Secure Digital Future?
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Cyber-attacks and data-breaches are escalating, attackers are employing all manner of sophisticated tools, AI is transforming the “arms race” for attackers and defenders. We see the headlines, but is this a future we have to accept? What are the pathways to a more secure digital future?
I asked Bruce Schneier, the biggest name in cybersecurity.
Bruce is a DEEP thinker. He’s been researching and writing prolifically on cybersecurity since 1998, has authored more than 12 books, is a Fellow and lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy school and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and is also Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, a data-security venture co-founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
What I like best about him is this: he thinks about cybersecurity in all its holistic glory, as the product of social, political, economic AND technical forces. He’s a realist. Added to which, he has a wonderfully sharp turn of phrase that cuts through the nonsense to get right to the heart of an issue.
We discussed why government intervention is crucial for correcting market failures, IoT laws, the benefits of data decentralization and compartmentalization, disrupting cryptocurrencies to disrupt ransomware, treating superfluous data as a toxic asset, AI, thing-to-thing authentication, the unknowns of the post-quantum world, crypto-agility, the benefits of zero trust authentication and more.