Schneier on Security

Few figures in the IT security landscape command the respect and admiration of so many people as does Bruce Schneier. The well-regarded expert recently changed jobs, moving from BT to become the CTO of Co3 Systems in January of this year.

In a video interview with eSecurity Planet, Schneier explains why the incident response technology that Co3 Systems builds is an important part of the modern IT security lifecycle. A key part of what Co3 does is to automate the details of incident response, he said.

“When you’re under attack, the last thing you want to do is worry about all the details,” he said. “You want someone to do that for you; otherwise you’ll forget something.”…

Joseph Menn interviews Bruce Schneier at TrustyCon 2014, held on February 27, 2014 in San Francisco, California.

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Bruce Schneier appeared on an episode of Inventing the Future with Robert Tercek about the collision between open society and surveillance.

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Bruce Schneier is a legendary figure in the security community, well-known for his expertise in cryptography and more recently for his insight into the surveillance activities of the National Security Agency (NSA). Schneier currently serves as the CTO of incident response management vendor Co3 Systems. In an interview with eWEEK at the RSA conference here, Schneier detailed his views on the NSA’s surveillance activities. When it comes to domestic surveillance and metadata collection, Schneier firmly believes that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is the right agency to handle that data. He noted that the FBI already has domestic security capabilities and is responsible for the national fingerprint database. “The FBI is where we have laws and we have transparency,” Schneier said. “Spying on Americans is not the job of the U.S. military; it’s the job of the FBI.”Schneier added that anything that involves actually breaking into networks should fall under a military command. In his view, the NSA should be focused on defense and communication security, making software and networks more secure…

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Security expert Bruce Schnier comments on U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed changes to surveillance programs.

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Renowned security expert Bruce Schneier talks with Eben Moglen about what we can learn from the Snowden documents, the NSA’s efforts to weaken global cryptography, and how we can keep our own free software tools from being subverted.

Snowden, the NSA, and Free Software

Since Edward Snowden’s disclosures about widespread NSA surveillance, Americans and people everywhere have been presented with a digital variation on an old analog threat: the erosion of freedoms and privacy in exchange, presumably, for safety and security.

Bruce Schneier knows the debate well. He’s an expert in cryptography and he wrote the book on computer security; Applied Cryptography is one of the field’s basic resources, "the book the NSA never wanted to be published," raved Wired in 1994. He knows the evidence well too: lately he’s been helping the …

Following the row over claims German chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone was hacked by the US, Channel 4 News speaks to security expert Bruce Schneier and asks if the NSA has gone too far.

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