At a recent ITU cybersecurity event,Bruce Schneier, gave a keynote speech entitled Negotiating for Security. Mr. Schneier states that security is one of the fundamental building blocks of the information society as everything we now do with information requires some kind of security- sometimes a little, sometimes a lot, may it be personal, corporate or government related. He said that to a very real extent the limits of the information society can be seen as the limits of security. In other words, if we cannot do it securely, we will not do it with computers and on the internet. Therefore, this means that security is a fundamental enabling technology of the global information society. Moreover, he noted that society as a whole is increasingly moving onto computers and networks and therefore things that had previously nothing to do with computers suddenly do: whether airplanes or the national power grid, these now have an important information security component to their secure functioning. This means that information security therefore has become our general security, which is almost everything. This fact explains our need for an increased focus on security and why the things we are trying to achieve here at this meeting are so important. A Real Audio archive of Mr. Schneier's talk is available here.
Category :CyberSecurity
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