John S. Quarterman to address Internet2 Conference
Internet pioneer, John S. Quarterman, will participate in a panel at Internet2's Fall Conference, Sept 27-30. "Can the Internet get ahead of the crackers?'" will be presented on Wednesday, September 29th. Quarterman will argue that technical solutions need to be complemented by financial risk transfer strategies such as insurance.
Austin, TX (PRWEB) September 29, 2004 -- Internet pioneer, John S.
Quarterman, will participate in a panel at Internet2's Fall Conference, Sept
27-30. "Can the Internet get ahead of the crackers?'" will be presented on
Wednesday, September 29th. Quarterman will argue that technical solutions need
to be complemented by financial risk transfer strategies such as
insurance.
Internet2 is a consortium of education, business, and
government to develop and deploy advanced network technologies and applications
to accelerate tomorrow's Internet. The panel will examine new approaches to
cyber-security and autonomic computing and determine whether the next generation
of the Internet can be more secure than the current one. Quarterman is president
of InternetPerils Inc, the leading provider of automated Internet Business Risk
Management products for government, education, insurers, banks, ISPs, and
e-Commerce. The Internet2 conference is focused on innovative applications and
the underlying high-performance network infrastructures that enable them. Some
technical solutions, including self-monitoring and self protecting networks,
intrusion detection, identity management, and access control have been proposed
to stem the rising tide of Internet security problems that threaten the
burgeoning use of the Internet in academia, government, and
commerce.
Quarterman argues that while technical solutions are necessary,
they will never be sufficient. Recent events--- including the Akamai DNS outage,
the IE scob exploit, and Hurricane Ivan severing the IP connection to the Cayman
Islands---all demonstrate that such events are beyond the control of both the
enterprise and ISPs. They might as well be Acts of God, or what insurers call
"force majeure" events. Insurance is the traditional solution for shifting the
risk of such events onto financial partners, and insurance is one of a range of
risk management strategies whose time has come for the
Internet.
According to Quarterman, "Most technical security measures are
good, but each has its limitations. Intrusion detection requires predicting
exploits and does nothing about increased network traffic from organizations
that are not using intrusion detection. Authentication and authorization do
nothing about slowdowns. Autonomic networks may be able to monitor themselves,
but how do we know their monitoring features have not been compromised, and, if
they have self-healing capabilities, how does one guarantee those are not used
against the network?''
Technical security measures will increase,
Quarterman believes. "The development and implementation of insurance and other
risk management strategies will lead to more and better use of technical
security measures, because insurers will require it, just as they require
sprinkler systems for fire insurance.''
About InternetPerils
Inc
Formed in 2003, InternetPerils Inc. provides automated products for
Internet Business Risk Management. For more information, contact InternetPerils
http://www.internetperils.com
About John S.
Quarterman
http://riskman.typepad.com/about.html
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Perilocity (John's Security Blog)
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ABOUT
INTERNET2
http://www.internet2.edu/about
ABOUT FALL CONFERENCE
http://events.internet2.edu/2004/fall-mm
ABOUT THE
PANEL
http://events.internet2.edu/2004/fall-mm/sessionDetails.cfm?session=1624&event=219
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/9/prweb162751.htm