Can we have free communications and security too?
Lately there have been numerous hackers that have succeeded in getting passwords and other information from supposedly secure sites. Now we even have reports that the Chinese and a number of other national actors have set up groups to execute sophisticated hacking operations against our commercial companies to steal engineering secrets that are critical to our national security.
The question starts to become, "is access to information worth the risk of losing it to sophisticated hackers?" Should we be posting intelligence in the battlefield on the "cloud" with other locations frequently looking like a sieve instead of a lock box? We can't rely solely on software solutions. We must have something more secure. Hybrid solutions are becoming available that add new levels of security for our information whether it be on line or in communication networks over the air. When we think crypto we immediately think of classified information, but engineering secrets and medical records also must be protected but for other reasons than security.
I'll be looking at some of these other solutions in the next few blogs.
The question starts to become, "is access to information worth the risk of losing it to sophisticated hackers?" Should we be posting intelligence in the battlefield on the "cloud" with other locations frequently looking like a sieve instead of a lock box? We can't rely solely on software solutions. We must have something more secure. Hybrid solutions are becoming available that add new levels of security for our information whether it be on line or in communication networks over the air. When we think crypto we immediately think of classified information, but engineering secrets and medical records also must be protected but for other reasons than security.
I'll be looking at some of these other solutions in the next few blogs.
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