Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, has recently put out a whitepaper that proposes a “new collective defense effort” to combat cybercrime/Internet security breaches that would apply the public health model to Internet security. This includes user education, “vaccination,” bolstering efforts to detect infected devices and granting access to resources based on the health of the device using technologies that would do for consumer devices what NAP does for the enterprise, i.e. reliance on “health certificates” to determine the status of connecting devices. It’s an interesting idea, and you can download the PDF here:
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Deb Shinder
Debra Littlejohn Shinder is a technology and security analyst and author specializing in identity, security and cybercrime, utilizing her past experience as a police officer and police academy/criminal justice instructor. She has written numerous books and articles for web and print publications and has been awarded the Microsoft MVP designation for fourteen years in a row.