News in the Category "Recorded Interviews"
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Audio: RB2: Q&A with Bruce Schneier
In this podcast you’ll hear a Q&A with Bruce Schneier of BT Counterpane, as moderated by Risky Business host Patrick Gray at the recent GovCERT Symposium in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Topics covered include cloud computing, privacy, software manufacturer liability for defects, two factor authentication and more!
Video: Bruce Schneier on Outsourcing and Awareness Training
At 2009’s Information Security Decisions conference, security expert Bruce Schneier sat down to answer some of readers’ security questions, which range from the trustworthiness of outsourced security services to the usefulness of awareness training in securing new technologies.
Video: Q & A with Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier answered audience questions at the DEFCON hacking conference.
Audio: Cryptography, Security Theater, and the Psychology of Fear
Dennis Fisher talks with security expert Bruce Schneier about the usefulness of cryptography, the psychology of security and fear and the war on the unexpected after 9/11.
Audio: Insider Threats
The government spends billions to prevent criminals worldwide from breaking into its computer systems, but what about the inside threat – the danger from people you trust?
Audio: Schneier on Security
Bruce Schneier joined Paul Harris to talk about whether we are in fact safer with current airport procedures than those before 9/11 and whether government and private industry are doing enough to harden security at possible terrorist targets like nuclear and chemical plants. They also talked about technology’s role in global security (e.g. whether Google Earth deserved the criticism after investigators found that the terrorists who shot up Mumbai in November had used the imaging information to plan their attack), and about the restrictions on taking liquids onto commercial flights—the 3.5-ounce rule—and whether there is any proof that a terrorist could construct a bomb from two liquids they mixed in an airplane lavatory…
Video: Screening the TSA
Excerpt
But the question is: is everything we go through at checkpoints actually making us safer? Security expert Bruce Schneier says no. He says much of it is just "security theater."
"It’s a phrase I coined for security measures that look good, but don’t actually do anything," he explained.
Schneier, who has been an adviser to TSA but also its most persistent thorn-in-the-side, says there are too many silly rules.
Take the baggies for liquids, which became a rule in 2006 when British authorities uncovered a plot to bring liquid bombs on board airliners headed for the U.S.: Schneier says the liquid limits may make us feel safe, but do little to stop terrorists…
Video: 3 Qüestions: Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier és considerat internacionalment com un gurú de la seguretat informàtica. Va fundar, i actualment dirigeix, la divisió tecnològica de la companyia BT Counterpane, especialitzada en serveis de seguretat informàtica. Citat habitualment als mitjans de comunicació, Schneier ha escrit nombrosos articles a la premsa i ha testificat diverses vegades sobre seguretat al Congrés dels Estats Units.
Note: in this video, the questions are in Spanish but Bruce Schneier’s responses are in English.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.