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Source: InternetNews.com - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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Computer security isn't a technological problem -- it's an economic one.
That is the message Bruce Schneier, CTO of Counterpane Internet Security and the author of "Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World," repeated throughout his keynote address here Thursday at the infoSecurity Conference in New York's Jacob K. Javits Center.
Schneier, a security technologist, said the future of security is getting harder to predict and warned the several hundred tech professionals on hand that they must start paying attention to the economics of security if they hoped for technology to keep pace.
"To understand the difference it's necessary to understand the basic economic incentives of companies and how businesses are affected by liabilities," he said.
The key is to think of security not in absolutes, but rather in terms of sensible trade-offs, said Schneier.
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