Archive for August, 2002

Bootstrapping security

Mark is contemplaiting mobile Internet and draws some conclusions about security and general usefulness of technology. Appying those two to web services, he says:

“The lessons here for Web Services are: (1) Security shouldn’t be an afterthought.(2) Equally, don’t hype a technology based on the technology alone“

Let’s spare some thoughts on the first one. From what […]

“Who owns what” and other amusing questions

Over the weekend I found some time to had a look at presentations from the OMG conference I had found out about last week. In a presentation from a guy named Matt Hettinger I have found out excellent compilation of questions that go straight to the heart of many security issues in multi-organisation IT deployments.

What is […]

End-end security dream

Everyone seems to be quoting Ray Ozzie’s article talking the end-end security principle. Mark O’Neill notes that end-end security concept is not panacea. He quotes one of his colleagues:

“Let’s not confuse securely designed with securely implemented…the vast bulk of the security issues have been implementation problems. Adding in a whole, complex layer of authentication, encryption and […]

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