An “individual up” paradigm would enable all our security, whether individuals, businesses, government institutions or civil society organizations. To enhance cyber security in this way, we should promote the free flow of information, maximize transparency, invest in digital due process and reduce structural vulnerabilities for the user. Prism and the secrecy attached to the number and scope of national security requests, including Foreign Intelligence Service Act orders, are the wrong way to go, and the global community is right to be horrified. By securing all layers of the stack starting with and enabling the individual, we will be better positioned to respond to cyber attacks holistically and effectively. This paradigm must emphasize improving security architecture by design so that protections are not bolted on afterwards, and offer incentives and processes to resolve known vulnerabilities for individuals in a timely fashion. With more than 100 governments now possessing network exploitation capabilities, we are in the midst of a digital arms race that relies on exploiting vulnerabilities in software and hardware, not patching them. One place to start is the looming crisis of mobile security caused by the failure of mobile carriers to systematically update the operating systems on Android phones, placing hundreds of millions of individual mobile phone users at risk.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:00:03 +0000
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