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Audio: Does the Security Industry Have a Future?
Bruce Schneier and Peter Schoof of ebizQ discuss current vulnerabilities, what the future of the security industry will look like, security industry consolidation, encryption, and finally, the time frame for changes in the industry to come about.
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First, what threats do you see that companies need to be most concerned with at this point?
The biggest threat right now is crime. About five years ago, criminals discovered the internet in a big way and whether it’s identity theft which is fraud or denial of service extortion or other attempts to make money, crime is the primary threat on the net and when we’re worried about internet threats, we’re worried about crime. …
The Halfway House Between Science and Secrets
An Interview With Bruce Schneier on Science and Security
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Earlier this month the National Research Council released a Congressionally-mandated report, “Science and Security in a Post 9/11 World,” which recognizes that the 9/11 attacks provoked a misallocation of United States security resources and led to counter-productive security measures. The NRC warns that the widespread practice of labeling scientific research as “sensitive but unclassified” has had grave consequences for our security and our economy. In order to encourage more sensible science-security policymaking, the NRC has recommended the creation of a new high-level Science and Security Commission to give scientists and government security officials a place to deliberate and negotiate security policies as they relate to science and engineering research…
Audio: The Halfway House Between Science and Secrets
A recent National Research Council report recognizes that the 9/11 attacks provoked counter-productive security measures that stifle access to fruitful scientific research. Security expert Bruce Schneier talks with Science Progress about the science that makes us smarter and the security that makes us safer.
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Earlier this month the National Research Council released a Congressionally-mandated report, ‘Science and Security in a Post 9/11 World,’ which recognizes that the 9/11 attacks provoked a …
On People, the Death of Privacy, and Data Pollution
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Bruce Schneier. Matt Pasiewicz, EDUCAUSE content program manager, conducted the interview at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference.
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MP: Bruce, perhaps you can get us started by sharing some of your thoughts about the psychology and economics of security.
Schneier: Security is a lot more about people than technology. One thing I’ve learned from studying economics, the psychology of risk, security, and people is that those problems are actually way harder than the tech problems. We have as much technology as we need, but securing the people end is hard. I’m doing a lot of research in psychology right now. People are very complex: they’re not linear and rational, and they’re not computers at all. We try to think of them as logical and rational, and that’s just not true. People have internal contradictions…. No matter how good the tech is, if we don’t solve the human end, it’s just not going to work…
Q&A with Bruce Schneier
Expert says security benefits must be weighed against tradeoffs
Q: When a company or government entity has a security proposal, how should they evaluate that? What sort of principles should they be looking for to determine whether this is going to be an effective security solution?
A: First, you have to understand that security is a tradeoff. Whether you give money, or time, or convenience, or civil liberties, or American servicemen’s lives, you give something and you get some security in return. There’s no such thing as absolute security: It’s a continuum and it’s a tradeoff.
The next question to ask is, is it worth it? You have to go through a security tradeoff, tease out what the risks are, how good the countermeasures are, what the costs are, and then decide “Is it worth it?”…
Computer Security's Dubious Future
InfoWorld's Roger Grimes weighs in on why security expert Bruce Schneier thinks computer security won't get any better in the next 10 years
As longtime readers already know, I’m a big fan of Bruce Schneier, CTO and founder of BT Counterpane. Besides being a cryptographic and computer security authority, cryptographic algorithm creator, and author of many best-selling books on security, Bruce produces some of the most relevant conversations on computer security. I consider his books, his Cryptogram newsletter, and his blog must-reads for anyone in computer security.
Bruce is a guy who pushes us to rethink our currently held paradigms. He lays bare unsubstantiated dogma. I don’t always agree with Bruce. But many of the potent ideas that I disagreed with when he espoused them a half decade ago, I find myself agreeing with years later, ideas like how two-factor authentication won’t stop malicious hackers from stealing gobs of money from the online banking industry, and how the biggest problem with security, in general, is us and our irrational ranking of threats…
Video: Schneier: Bad News Is Good News, Not So for Security
While the media bombards consumers with frightening stories, discussions about security are thwarted by the failure of language to separate the “feeling” and “reality” of security, says security guru Bruce Schneier.
Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography and his most recent book Beyond Fear, reckons there is a fundamental problem with the way humans think about security. And its roots can be drawn back to a failure of language.
“‘Security’ is a complicated word,” Schneier told ZDnet.com.au at linuxconf08.
“You can feel secure and there’s the reality of security—how secure you are. And they’re different things. You can …
The Insider
Bruce Schneier, founder and CTO of Counterpane, outlines the cybercrime landscape enterprises face today. He explains to CWHK‘s Stefan Hammond that insiders are a problem, managed security services are a solution, and a determined crew with a chainsaw and a truck is a big problem.
CWHK: Computer security never seems to get better, only worse. Why?
Bruce Schneier: Because security is fundamentally not a technology problem—it’s a people problem. And while the technology continues to improve, increasing complexity makes the problem worse.
It’s war. But it’s much more interesting, and it’s always pervasive…
Talking security with Bruce Almighty
When the good folk at Linux Australia sat down with the organisers of the Australian national Linux conference and decided that Bruce Schneier would be the keynote speaker on the opening day of the main conference, they couldn’t have made a more correct decision.
Schneier is a man whose security credentials are impeccable, who’s probably the world’s top security technologist. At the same time, he can talk about security concepts to a teenager – and the kid will understand exactly what he’s saying.
When you realise that this same man is an inventor of the Blowfish, Twofish and Yarrow algorithms, then you begin to understand what the word intellectual means…
Information is our Only Security Weapon: Bruce Schneier at Linux.conf.au
Computer security expert Bruce Schneier took a swipe at a number of sacred cows of security including RFID tags, national ID cards and public CCTV security cameras in his keynote address to Linux.conf.au this morning.
These technologies were all examples of security products tailored to provide the perception of security rather than tackling actual security risks, he said.
“Camera companies are pushing it, but all the actual data points the other way,” Schneier said. “RFID is another one—the industry pushing it is very much distorting facts.”…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.