2002 predictions from expert Neal O'Farrell |
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By Neal O'Farrell
18 Dec 2001 | SearchSecurity |
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We asked security experts to give us their industry predictions for the New Year. Here's what Neal O'Farrell had to say.
More of the same.
More products with more holes followed by more apologies and excuses as
hollow as the holes.
Biometrics will go the way of PKI -- more debate, more argument about the best way to "biometricize" the world and more delays with any
widespread adoption. Voice verification might get more attention as
users realize that fingerprints are a one-time shot that can't be
reissued after the bio database has been hacked.
More new faces and more consolidation -- new firms will continue to
appear with exciting new security products, unfazed by the equally high
number of new firms with exciting new products that had so much hope
last year and are now history.
More hacktivism as war protesters find more courage.
Greater focus on the role and control of the trusted employee.
My 73-year-old mother in Dublin Ireland will have a firewall. She called me last week to ask me if I had one, and after seeing an article on hackers in a local newspaper she definitely thinks it's about time she got one. Personal firewalls are likely to be the most widely used
security technology.
SearchSecurity will consolidate its claim as the best security resource
on the Web!
Neal O'Farrell
Neal is CEO of Hackademia, a firm focused on security education. He's a twenty-year veteran of information security, former hacker and original Code Rebel. As an expert on searchSecurity, Neal answers your questions on user education, secure e-mail and e-commerce and encryption.
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