More tech fails to exorcise security risks
John Leyden writes in The Register:
Current IT systems are inherently insecure and growing complexity will simply increase these risks, a leading academic has warned.
Users should rebel and demand vendors compensate them for security foul-ups, said pugnacisous Professor Klaus Brunnstein of the University of Hamburg
Brunnstein told delegates to an IT security conference in London on Wednesday that attempting to protect against IT risks - such as hacking attacks - by increasing the complexity of systems is futile. "That would be like trying to expel the devil with Beelzebub," he said.
The present wave of IT security incidents is caused by inherently insecure assumptions, including overly complex systems. The interoperation of these systems with other insecure technologies magnifies the problem, the applied informatics academic argued.
posted by Fergie @ 9/14/2005 07:01:00 AM
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