For Pete’s Sake

That’s the name of my new column in the ISSA Journal. My first column is entitled “Security for the Next Decade.” Here is an excerpt of how I think security will be changing over the long-term:

  • Conscientious software – talk about software liability is
    absolutely destructive. But there is no reason software vendors shouldn’t be
    doing a better job of describing their software in some sort of
    machine-readable language that could be used by host intrusion prevention
    solutions (that already do this) or even by the software itself to
    self-regulate.
  • Remote attestation – I hope every time you hear about Web
    2.0, service-oriented architecture, virtualization, grid computing, and other buzzwords that you are
    concluding that remote attestation, using cryptographic verification of
    integrity and authenticity, is a near-term requirement. (Yes, PKI lives, and
    Palladium, too).
  • Microsecurity – To heck with generalized, coarse controls.
    We need to design scalable models to address the most fine-grained, detailed
    security policies ever.
  • Contextual mapping – Men, beware, there is no driving
    without maps, but GPS is NOT cheating. All of this flexibility in architectures
    is going to make the management of contexts crucial to the success of a
    security program.
  • Hyperdynamic processing – Darn straight I am making this
    name up. What do you get when you combine vmWare’s Vmotion with address space
    layout randomization (ASLR)? Well, hyperdynamic processing, of course! Think
    about stable, transaction-oriented sessions (can I say that?) running in random
    locations across the Internet providing protection against lower-layer targeted
    attacks while maintaining a stable application environment.

Want some context? Check out the magazine or login (ISSA members) at the website.

1 comment for “For Pete’s Sake

  1. January 24, 2008 at 1:32 am

    Contextual Mapping

    or SUCKING UP ISNT HARD TO DO
    An Old Friend of Mine told me I should start blogging. Which is why Ive been blogging at light-speed the last couple months (this IS my third post). In any case, my previous post was on the need for maps but…

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