Schneier on Security

Bruce Schneier, CTO at the security firm Resilient Systems, is busy examining how IoT – the name given to the computerization of everything in our lives – is changing the security world.

From sensors that collect data about our environment to databases in the cloud to analytics that help us make use of data, the Internet of Things is capable of changing our physical world.

“We’re building an internet that senses, thinks and acts, but doesn’t have a body, and that is the textbook definition of a robot,” Schneier says. “What I want to propose is that we’re building a world-sized robot, and we don’t even realize it. While this change has its merits in bringing about enormous changes in social, economic and political environments, this is only going to increase security vulnerabilities,” he says…

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In developing markets such as Asia and the Middle East, how can security practitioners best prepare themselves to tackle the rapidly-changing threat landscape? Resilience is the key, says security leader Bruce Schneier.

The way to think about security is a combination of protection, detection and response, says Schneier, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School, USA. While there is a lot of prevention and detection technology, response is the missing piece, he says. The more you can look at response, the more effective you will be…