Cryptographer Bruce Schneier today reiterated his managed security services gospel in a talk here on the opening day of the RSA Security Conference. But if his message is really being heard, there should be general panic among . . .
Cryptographer Bruce Schneier today reiterated his managed security services gospel in a talk here on the opening day of the RSA Security Conference. But if his message is really being heard, there should be general panic among CIOs in corporate America.

"The future of Internet security is not very good," Schneier said. "New methods are being invented, new tricks, and every year it gets worse. We are not breaking even. We are losing the battle."

The reason not to panic, Schneier says, is that we have to accept the poor state of security and work to mitigate the risk of attacks rather than try to prevent attacks altogether -- an impossible task.

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