Are we over-focused on yesterday’s problems to the exclusion of tomorrow’s?

Nicholas Weaver, your vision of the future is the grimmest — the unstoppable trend to connect everything to the Internet will lead to people being killed by computer attacks on cars, power plants, and medical devices. The privacy threat is qualitatively a familiar one to everyone with a computer or a credit card. The “actuator” threat is not. Are we over-focused on yesterday’s problems to the exclusion of tomorrow’s? And what would it take to get ahead of these dangers? More broadly: what would it take to make security broadly compelling and achievable for developers, companies, and users?

The Future of Security Roundtable is a Google-sponsored initiative that brings together thought leaders to discuss how we can best protect ourselves from the data breaches and security risks of tomorrow. Panelists are not affiliated with Google, and their opinions are their own. Read the post that kicked off the roundtable here and feel free to join in the conversation.