InfoWorld - Security Adviser: Security will get worse before it gets better

The damage caused by threats and the number of Net-dependent critical systems are on the rise. Yet we still haven't created a safer Internet

By Roger A. Grimes
MARCH 12, 2013

One day we will get the safer Internet we deserve. The question is: How much more damage needs to occur before we that happens? Longtime readers of this blog will recall that I've even written a manifesto on this topic, entitled "Fixing the Internet: A Security Solution."

Critics of my solution, which recommends establishing a global Internet security infrastructure service, tend to decry what they see as an unreasonable decrease in anonymity and privacy. They point out that a reasonable solution is that things stay just as they are. After all, the real world has learned to live with a certain amount of crime as a cost of doing business. Why not the Internet?

The laissez-faire solution might seem like the right one by default, considering the continued lack of serious effort toward better Internet security. We've been living for at least a decade with things as bad as they are -- identity theft, APTs, Trojans, and so on aren't exactly new.

The problem with living with the status quo is twofold: The harm caused by cyber crime keeps intensifying, and the critical systems that depend on the Internet keep jumping in number.

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