I have for more than a week now been visiting some great companies within the compute business serving out of California. The purpose for my travel this time has been to see what goes on cross industry and within the industry I want to take part.
The one thing that really is interesting me are all the initiatives on handling the challenges on security. I am amazed at what is happening here and how different companies are working together to “solve” the ever new challenges. I guess one of the key elements here are that the Internet as we know it was not secure by design, so making it more safe in a world where any product -, service-, software-, hardware-, thing-, city-, country-,etc-service have to go ON-line, makes the security theme a challenging one.
If we look into some of the, what I think are and will be among the participants in this filed of security making the users life easier, are the software vendors, taking care of authentication as one element. A very good example of this solution is my friends in Forgerock Inc. whom I think have some rather good insight into what can be done.
Software is one side, hardware is an other and to find the combination off the two that suits all, well I think I need to travle some more 😉
Still I have some that I want to investigate and try out more and in my “hunt” to make a real difference for the users, that be any category of the word… I need something that can cover these three elements:
- scalability
- industry standards
- user friendly
I am getting there and my old idea to have a standard design that can be reused across industries on most “known” protocols might be able to help me deface the obscurity more in the security landscape.
The only thing I really do know is that I do not know enough, yet, but getting there with others that like the idea I have and are willing to see if we can really help make the “open” Internet more user-security-friendly = User controlled and managed.. 😉
regards
bjørn