InfoWorld - Security Adviser: 10 building blocks for securing the Internet today

With the right leadership, we could apply an array of today's protocols, specs, and technologies to make the Internet safer for everyone

By Roger A. Grimes
February 22, 2011

During his keynote speech at RSA Conference 2011, Microsoft's corporate VP for trustworthy computing Scott Charney called for a more cooperative approach to securing computer endpoints. The proposal is a natural maturation of Microsoft's (my full-time employer) End-to-End Trust initiative to make the Internet significantly safer as a whole. It closely follows the plans I've been recommending for years; I've even written a whitepaper on the subject.

The most important point of this argument is that we could, today, make the Internet a much safer place to compute. All the open-standard protocols required to significantly decrease malicious attackers and malware already exist. What's missing is the leadership and involvement from the politicians, organizations, and tech experts necessary to turn the vision into a reality.

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