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Video: What You Need to Know about Security in Government
When trying to bring government services into the digital age, we are always trying to build the right thing and build the thing right. But when time is of the essence and budgets are constrained, security can sometimes fall to the second tier of priorities as a nice-to-have, but not essential, element. How do we make security a priority while delivering on services that people urgently need? At Code for America Summit we turned to Bruce Schneier: public interest technologist, Special Advisor to IBM Security, fellow and lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and one of our foremost experts on cybersecurity in government…
Wanted: "Public-Interest Technologists" to Inform Raging Debates on Cybersecurity Policy
LAS VEGAS. Technologists are the missing voice in cyber policy debates on issues ranging from encryption to supply-chain security, says Bruce Schneier of Harvard Law’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, who made several presentations here calling for development of a robust “public- interest technologist” community to help shape laws and rules for this technology century.
As an example, he pointed to a “25-year debate on ‘going dark,’” or whether government should be able to access encrypted communications, and said, “It’s a scare term. We’ll never get the policy right if the policy makers get the technology wrong.”…
Audio: Autonomous Vehicle Security Deep Dive w/Bruce Schneier
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We drill all the way down to the CPU level in this follow-on discussion of autonomous vehicle security. This encore episode with cyber-guru, Bruce Schneier, is in response to the requests we received on Reddit, LinkedIn, and email for a deeper dive after our recent conversation with him.
We start with a simple question, “Who is the threat actor we need to protect our vehicles from?” Bruce’s answer has lessons in it for everyone from a user to a government regulator. We also talk about principles teams can incorporate into their design process. Our discussion then leads to vulnerabilities in COTS and ends with considerations for CPU security…
Book Review: Data and Goliath
After sitting in my reading list for years, I finally got to read “Data and Goliath” by Bruce Schneier. Overall, this book is as well written as all of Schneier’s books, and is just as scientifically accurate (to the best that I could tell). However, whoever the audience for his book is, they may find it missing essential parts that make it not just a pleasant read, but also a useful one.
This book is written so clearly that reading it will flow well for security professionals and the general public alike. I recommended it to a few acquaintances who are not security savvy nor even technologists, but who should know more about the information exchange ecosystem that they fuel with their personal data…
Audio: Bruce Schneier Talks the Cybersecurity Risks of an Autonomous Future
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In this interview, we speak with cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier. Bruce is internationally renowned with multiple books, including Click Here to Kill Everybody.
Bruce shares his perspective on the broad security issues that need to be addressed in our autonomous future.
A crucial question to answer is, “Who will dictate policy?” Many of these technologies transcend federal governments, leaving some policymakers scratching their heads. Hopefully, this conversation moves us one step closer to answers…
"Tu Coche Ya Está Conectado a Internet y Ahora Cualquiera Puede Usarlo para Matarte"
“¿Alarmista? ¡Qué va! Es un gran título, estoy orgulloso de él. Recuerda: los títulos están para vender libros”. Bruce Schneier suelta una carcajada recostado en el sofá de su casa en Minneapolis (Minesota), donde vive desde hace años. En realidad tendría que estar en Madrid con motivo de la publicación en castellano de su último libro, ‘Haz clic aquí para matarlos a todos” (Ed. Temas de Hoy – Planeta), pero al final el café se ha quedado en videollamada. Criptógrafo, profesor en Harvard y uno de los expertos en ciberseguridad más renombrados a nivel mundial…
Click Here to Kill Everybody: A Review
This week I read Click Here to Kill Everybody, a book that is at the same time worrying and encouraging. A security nightmare is waiting to happen, but there is still time to save the world. Yeah, the book is a tad dramatic, but generally a great read that I can recommend.
More and more devices are connected to the internet, and it is not just traditional devices with browsers, like desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones. It’s also things like washing machines and fridges. Even in mission critical things like thermostats, pacemakers and nucleair power plants. We, humans, are in the middle of this new world: we give input to and accept output from our devices. In his book …
Bruce Schneier Is Leaving IBM
Bruce Schneier announced in a blog post that his three-year stint at IBM is officially over:
“Today is my last day at IBM.
If you’ve been following along, IBM bought my startup Resilient Systems in Spring 2016. Since then, I have been with IBM, holding the nicely ambiguous title of ‘Special Advisor.’ As of the end of the month, I will be back on my own.
I will continue to write and speak, and do the occasional consulting job. I will continue to teach at the Harvard Kennedy School. I will continue to serve on boards for organizations I believe in….”…
Bruce Schneier Moves on from IBM
Bruce Schneier announced in a brief blog post, “I’m leaving IBM.” His three-year stint with what he calls “the nicely ambiguous title of ‘Special Advisor’” ended at the end of June 2019. He gives no specific future plans beyond saying that he will continue to write, speak, teach and occasionally consult.
Schneier has been a cybersecurity luminary since his book Applied Cryptography was published in 1994. Since then he has developed several ciphers, including Blowfish, Twofish, Threefish, and MacGuffin. Twofish was one of the five finalists in the NSA encryption contest that ultimately led to the selection of Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Standard…
Book Review: Click Here to Kill Everybody
With the advent of Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence, and robotics, the threat to cybersecurity has entered a new stage in which risks to privacy, integrity, and availability are further amplified, and it has grown to include risk to personal safety and other catastrophic physical world consequences. Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World explains the state of cybersecurity, the impact on trust of our technical and social systems, and recommendations for getting to a safer and more secure future…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.