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Is Security a Solvable Problem?
Or is security the computer equivalent of the War on Terror? Bruce Schneier gives us the story.
Bruce Schneier is as close as you can get to being a rock star in the security industry. A cryptographer, computer security specialist and bestselling author of numerous books, he’s written countless articles and columns on security issues. He blogs about them at “Schneier on Security” http://www.schneier.com/, and publishes the monthly Crypto-Gram Newsletter that has a global readership of around 130,000.
He also finds time to be active in the industry as chief technology officer of BT Counterpane, http://www.counterpane.com/ a managed security services and consulting company he started in 1999 – plus he’s one of our …
Trading Off Crime with Terrorism
Security is a trade, says BT’s Chief Technical Officer Bruce Schneier: and currently we’re trading off the risk of crime on the internet today with the big, scary ‘cyber terrorism’, which is largely a media creation. Here’s more.
Chris Gibbons: Well coming up at the end of the month, 22 to 25 May, in fact is the IT Web Security Summit. Now in recent years, security has dominated the corporate agenda. And while there has been significant effort expended in protecting organisational resources, security incidences have been on the rise, the risk of exposures, the confidential customer, corporate and personal information is at an all time high…
Regn med at kundene er idioter
Sikkerhetsguru Bruce Schneier forteller det nettbankene ikke tør si.
—Gi opp sikkerhet hvis svindel er billigere!
Bruce Schneier er det nærmeste man kommer en rockestjerne innen it-sikkerhet. Teknologisjefen i BT Counterpane er mest kjent som frittalende blogger, og nyter usedvanlig stor respekt for sin innsikt i sikkerhet.
Spissformuleringene sitter tett når han snakker, og nylig var han i Oslo på Ciscos sikkerhetskonferanse for å snakke om det eneste middelet han tror på for å få orden på it-sikkerheten – ren egeninteresse.
Dagensit.no møtte ham før konferansen, for å snakke om nettbanksvindel…
Bedre på sikkerhet, verre for brukerne
Slik vurderer Bruce Schneier, kjent ekspert innen IT-sikkerhet, Microsofts utvikling de siste årene.
Bruce Schneier er blant verdens mest kjente eksperter på IT-sikkerhet. Han er utdannet innen kryptografi og er gründer og teknisk sjef i et selskap som i fjor høst ble kjøpt av British Telecom (BT). Selskapet heter nå BT Counterpane.
Schneier var i forrige uke i Norge og digi.no fikk en prat med ham. Det var flere temaer som var naturlige å ta opp med Schneier, blant annet sikkerheten i Windows Vista.
Overraskende nok har ikke Schneier, som riktignok er kjent for å være skeptisk til Microsoft, prøvd Windows Vista noe særlig. Han hadde likevel både litt ris og ros å komme med…
Interview: Bruce Schneier
BT Counterpane's founder and chief technology officer talks to SA Mathieson at Infosecurity Europe
Bruce Schneier packed out the show’s keynote theatre when he spoke about ‘The Psychology of Security’, based on a draft essay he published in February. He outlined a range of research suggesting that our perceptions of a given risk are heightened if it is – among other things – spectacular, discussed widely, outside our normal experience or willingly taken rather than beyond our control. Such biases are ideal for hunter-gatherers living in small family groups in Kenya in 100 000BC, he argues, but not for modern life.
So how does this apply to infosecurity risks? “The obvious place is the people who are afraid of cyber-terrorism, while minimising cyber-crime,” he says. “Cyber-terrorism gets the news, it’s the hot topic, it’s the scary topic and people are afraid of it. Cyber-crime doesn’t get as much news, and I think people very much underplay that threat. You see it also when people overplay the threat of peer-to-peer, or they get all scared of people bringing their iPods in and maybe putting data on it. They forget that data could walk out on paper. So there is a lot of people reacting to the news, instead of to the reality of security. Now, it’s hard to blame them. This is what’s reported, this is what people worry about, but I think there’s a big difference in how people perceive internet security and what’s really going on…
Homeland Security Follies
According to the sleeve of his latest book, Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security “in an Uncertain World, Bruce Schneier is the go-to security expert for business leaders and policy makers.” If only the policy makers would listen, we’d be safer, happier and still free.
Other books include Applied Cryptography, described by Wired as “the book the NSA wanted never to be published.”
Beyond Fear deals with security issues ranging from personal safety to national security and terrorism. Schneier is also a frequent contributor to Wired magazine, …
Why Don't Companies Buy More Secure Software?
Balancing security and functionality is nothing new. But is there a way to fairly allocate the security costs to the users who benefit from the functionality? We ask the LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit keynote speaker Bruce Schneier.
LinuxWorld: Welcome to the Linux World Podcast. Hi, I’m Don Marti, and I’m here with Bruce Schneier from Counterpane Internet Security. Welcome, Bruce.
Bruce Schneier: Thanks for having me.
LinuxWorld: Why don’t companies buy more secure software, or at least why don’t they buy less insecure software?
Schneier: You know those of us in the security industry have been wringing our hands over that question for years, for decades. Why don’t they do it? There are a couple of reasons. The first is—it’s sometimes hard to tell what a secure product is. I can hold up two products; they use the same buzzwords. They have the same protocol standards. What is secure, and what isn’t? And you don’t know. And these might be security products. These might be networking products or office products. It’s very hard to tell what a secure product is and what an insecure product is. That’s reason one…
Bloggers on Blogging: Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier started his immensely popular blog Schneier on Security in October 2004. He is the CTO of BT Counterpane and the author of eight books, including the bestselling Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, Applied Cryptography, and Practical Cryptography.
Bruce, 44, has a B.S. in Physics from the University of Rochester and an M.S. in Computer Science from American University. He created the the influential Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms, has testified before Congress, and has served on several government technical committees. He serves on the Board of Directors of the …
Tales from the Cryptographer
Security guru Bruce Schneier busts the myths of post-9/11 safety measures
Bruce Schneier has little patience for pointless security measures. As an internationally acclaimed cryptographer and security expert who travels extensively for work, he encounters them every day. Most airline passengers probably have wondered whether taking off their shoes for airport screeners accomplishes anything. Schneier not only understands why it doesn’t, he can explain why it actually make us less secure. As he puts it, “If we’re relying on airport screeners to prevent terrorism, it’s already too late. After all, we can’t keep weapons out of prisons. How can we ever hope to keep them out of airports?”…
Steal These Ideas: 5 Security Experts' Tips and Techniques
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1 – Would a more proactive approach to security—working to ensure that stronger software security is built into applications—work any better than the reactive approaches, such as patches and external software safeguards?
Of course. It’s the only possible approach. The notion that we can write lousy software, throw it out into the world and then patch it later has failed. It doesn’t work. We need to write more secure software from the beginning.
2 – How satisfied do you think corporate CIOs and CSOs are with the effort their software vendors are putting into delivering more secure products? Do you see the quality of the security built into software products getting better or worse?…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.