The Long-term Decay and Re-birth of Innovation in Security and Privacy?

A digital world short on true security innovation?

We live in a digital world which is almost completely imperfect.

Why were Intel and Microsoft so successful in the growth of the PC? Because they built on legacy, and make sure that all their software and systems were compatible with the previous versions. But if the legacy is flawed, we are building on foundations of sand, and this is one of the main reasons that our digital world is imperfect.

The methods we use for our Internet security are often still based on the one where we connected to a local network, and in a world where clouds were just white and fluffy. The methods we use for our public services are still based on the days of paper form filling. And the ways of our government and legal systems are still based on a time before the invention of the automobile. We have scaled our old world into a digital space, and it is now riddled with holes.

We still use the methods, systems and protocols that we used in the 1980s, and have just tried to wrap privacy and security around them. Our industry leaders often see little benefits in changing this world, as they have invested their funds in running an old digital world. Our industry has thus failed to move…