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IoT Security: “The Market has Failed”
According to the IT security expert Bruce Schneier, the consequences of unrestricted connectivity in the Internet of Things could be devastating. In the interview, he calls for greater security for the Internet of Things (IoT).
“The era of fun and games is over,” said Bruce Schneier at the Telekom Security Congress in Frankfurt in November 2016. The American expert for IoT security and cryptography is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of IBM Resilient. In his bestseller “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World”, the security researcher describes how states and Internet firms spy on us. In the interview, the 53-year-old talks about the huge importance of security for and through the Internet of Things, about a failing market and about the need for state regulation…
Hacking: What Journalists Need to Know. A Conversation with Bruce Schneier
The hacking of Democratic Party organizations has made internet security germane to the 2016 presidential election campaign. America’s intelligence community has accused high-level Russian officials of backing these cyberattacks in an attempt to influence the election result. Such allegations have helped thrust relations between Washington and Moscow to their lowest point in decades.
Meanwhile, the integrity of America’s internet infrastructure was tested on Oct. 21, 2016 with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
Journalist’s Resource spoke with security expert Bruce Schneier about the attacks and what journalists need to know. The interview, conducted by email while Schneier was traveling, has been edited for length…
Ask Me Anything
Bruce Schneier did an AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) on Reddit. Topics covered included Tor, voting systems, open source hardware, the Solitaire cipher, risk insurance, industrial control systems, and the game Dungeons and Dragons.
Video: Bruce Schneier: Building Cryptographic Systems
Security expert Bruce Schneier discusses security from the perspectives of both the National Security Agency and the National Institution of Standards and Technology.
Since the 1930s at Bletchley Park, there has been a continuous arms race to both improve and break cryptography. The files leaked by National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden made it clear that governments regularly gather data on average citizens, which makes us wonder if privacy is even possible. Do our carefully designed cryptographic systems protect our information as we expect them to, or are they just thin veils that can easily be pierced by the government? I posed these questions to leading security expert Bruce Schneier…
Q&A: Bruce Schneier on Joining IBM, IoT Woes, and Apple v. the FBI
It's going to get worse before it gets better
Security guru Bruce Schneier is a regular at shows like RSA and his talks are usually standing-room-only affairs.
Schneier has written some of the definitive texts for modern cryptography teaching and his current book, Data and Goliath, examines the perils and solutions to government and corporate surveillance of internet users. The Register sat down with him to talk over the news of the day, and to get an idea of where the security industry is going.
Q: First things first—you’re the CTO of Resilient Systems, which IBM is in the process of buying…
Bruce Schneier: The Security Mindset
Networked technology increasingly touches all aspects of our lives. When essential systems are connected to a networked environment, it becomes important to make sure that they’re protected from attack. We continue improving the mathematics and algorithms used to secure these systems, but attackers tend to exploit weaknesses in how the math-ematics and technologies are used.
As effective security becomes more vital, many computer science students are becoming interested in making security part of their education. I talked to Bruce Schneier, a leading cybersecurity thinker, and asked him how students might prepare themselves for a career in this field. See the entire interview at …
Q&A with Bruce Schneier: What if Your Law Firm Is the Next Ashley Madison?
If the subject is security, chances are Bruce Schneier has an opinion on it, and that opinion has been published somewhere—on his blog, in the New York Times, on the BBC, in the Guardian, in Wired, in one of his 13 books. You get the point. On security, Schneier is among the most well-known and most prolific authorities in the world. Since coming to prominence in the mid-90s through his writings on cryptography, he has testified on the floor of Congress, served on several government committees, coined the term ‘security theater’ in the wake of 9/11, and hooked a global following of some quarter-million readers through his website and …
Bruce Schneier: "Hacking Team is a Dangerous Company"
The American security guru fears that the diffusion of the software could be used by criminal groups
This interview also appeared in Italian.
You wrote in your blog: “I don’t think the company is going to survive”. However, at least in Italy and in the US Hacking Team has powerful sponsors…Will they survive?
«It remains to be seen. We know from the leaked documents that they have sold their products to the most repressive governments in the world…and overcharged them whenever possible. We know that they secretly put spyware and remote-control capabilities into the software they sold, allowing them back-door access without the knowledge of the governments they sold to. We know that they try to shield their activities from the UN in any way they can. We know, because of how completely and severely they were penetrated, that their own network security was pretty bad. They’ve already told all of their customers to stop using their software because it is no longer safe for them to do so. Hacking Team might have enough money in their bank accounts to stay around for a while, but do you think anyone will do business with them ever again?»…
Bruce Schneier: It’s Time to Start Prioritizing IT Security
Cyberattacks are getting more frequent, sophisticated and successful. Can organizations adapt security choices to cope better?
Nobody would disagree that IT security is necessary.
At minimum, it’s needed to satisfy relevant government and industry compliance regulations, along with your insurance company, investors, suppliers, customers and other business partners. At most, it also protects your data and systems from much-dreaded cyberattacks.
The hard part lies in the details.
‘What type of security should we invest in?”
“How much will this cost?’
‘Is there any ROI on security spending?’
To explore these issues, we sat down with security technologist Bruce Schneier…
Bruce Schneier: Get Ready for More "Organizational Doxing"
Bruce Schneier has been writing about security issues on his blog, his blog, Schneier on Security, since 2004, and in a monthly newsletter since 1998. He writes books, articles, and academic papers. Currently, he is the Chief Technology Officer of Resilient Systems, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, and a board member of Electronic Frontier Foundation.
What do you see as the greatest cyber risks today?
I don’t like ranking risks, and I worry that concentrating on the ‘greatest’ risk obscures all of the other risks. Basically, the big cyber risks are what everyone is talking about. It’s not like they’re hidden or subtle. They’re risks against our data: copying it, deleting it, modifying it, barring us access from it. They’re follow-on risks, because the Internet is so pervasive in modern society. They’re everything we’re actually worried about…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.