Towards Zero Trust and Citizen Rights
The Internet we have built is deeply flawed. Basically, we have advanced methods that matched our 1980s viewpoint of cybersecurity, where privacy, digital identity, and security-by-design had little thought. With every new advantage and every new threat, we have papered over the cracks and applied sticking plasters to our existing approaches.
But, the Internet is so much more than a bunch of computers connecting through the IP proposal — it is an integral part of virtually everything we do at home and at work. It has, too, become a place where the rights of citizens to privacy becomes ever more eroded.
The digital world we have is an ad-hoc one, with little in the way of trust and citizen identity. But, we now have the tool kit to build a better digital world, and at its core is cryptography. It is a foundation now based on Ethernet frames but on mathematical principles. On this foundation, we can build digital versions of our society, and properly integrate citizen rights to ownership of data and their identities, the rights of privacy, and in providing more certainty within digital transactions. The power of public key encryption should bring a new world of opportunity, and allow us to remove our paper-based approaches of the past.
And, so, this week, I am pleased to say that I have been appointed to the Zero Trust Special…
