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The View from Visionaries
3 Mikko Hyppönen
Chief research officer, F-Secure
Within the next 10 years, the main focus of the Internet will shift from West to East: Asian Internet users will outnumber American and European users 10-to-1. As a result, English-language Web [sites] will become a small and insignificant part of the big picture; most of the action will be elsewhere. This also means that over the next years, hundreds of millions of new computers will get online in China, India and elsewhere in Asia. How well will these computers be protected?
Internet access becomes ubiquitous, like electricity. People won't notice it any more. Everybody assumes that all devices have connectivity. This includes phones, MP3 players, cars, fridges, watches...and this of course brings us an entirely new set of security problems.
Wireless attacks could become a major headache. Imagine Wi-Fi Windows viruses, jumping from one laptop to another just because they are too close. Such Wi-Fi worms could spread between office buildings b...
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ecause of the proximity, bypassing corporate firewalls and other safeguards. And they would be spreading globally like biological viruses: when people travel with their laptops.
4 Alan Paller
Director of research, SANS Institute
The next three years will see a cascading transformation from soft security skills (policy/writing/awareness training) to hard security skills (attack exploits, intrusion detection, isolation and
segmentation). The director of one of the largest security consulting firms in Washington painted the picture most starkly, saying, "Eighty percent of our employees have soft skills and only 20 percent have hard skills. If we don't reverse that ratio within the next two years, we'll be out of business." The reason for the change is that the attackers have identified ways of beating the current defenses, creating push-back from executives who ask, "What do we need to do to stop these penetrations?" The answer increasingly is, "Replace soft skills with hard skills so your people can actually find the attacks, clean them up, and stop them from recurring."
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