Everything is insecure and will be forever says Cisco CTO

22 Mar 2015 at 23:31, Richard Chirgwin
 
While in Melbourne enduring the antipodean version of Cisco Live!, The Register's networking desk met veep and CTO Bret Hartman. Here's what he told us about network security, a field he feels is basically doomed. Forever.
The Register: The last twelve months tells us we have insecure devices connected through gateways, sending information back to insecure companies … and we want to expand all of this with the internet of everything. Are we crazy?

Hartman: Part of my job is to think about just that question … it's my job to try to anticipate technology directions, where we should be investing, what customers need.
To your point it's an awesome time to be a security professional. Guaranteed job security. My son wants to be in software, I tell him to get in security, like all kids he wants to write games.
 There's a fundamental issue … we as human beings get excited about technologies because they enable all these new and exciting things – wearables, connected homes, all information available, all the time, everywhere. We take that for granted.
As a security person, I recognise that there's a lot of risks. And the risks and the challenges just keep getting bigger.
 
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