Word: aucsmith
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...year in which viruses and worms made the front page and identity theft reached an all-time high, TIME's Board of Technologists keyed us into current cyberthreats and offered us its best solutions. On hand for our round table were David Aucsmith, architect and chief technology officer of Microsoft's Security Business Unit; Dan Geer, a consultant, entrepreneur and lead author of a recent report on the potential risk that widespread use of Microsoft products places on security; Charles Palmer, director of IBM Security & Privacy Research; Sal Stolfo, a Columbia University computer-science professor and member of Professionals...
...main reason for our vulnerability is that scientists created the Internet as an open network to share information; they never anticipated its dark side. Now, having unleashed it, they must retroactively make it closed and safe from these threats. "Value has moved into cyberspace," Aucsmith said, "and there are real criminals moving there as well." He noted that Willie Sutton, the legendary bank robber, said he cracked safes "because that's where the money...
...fault our industry--we realized a little bit too late that we did indeed connect everybody, including the bad guys." --David Aucsmith...
...just redesign products with more deeply embedded security features, because customers don't take well to mandates to completely trash their old systems for new ones. "It would be considerably easier if I were allowed to start from the ground, build a secure system and deploy," said Aucsmith. Until that happens, the data we entrust to companies might be guarded by the cyberequivalent of a dozing senior citizen with a fake cop badge...
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