Security Headlines from 2008: The Year In Review
From PCI compliance and virtualization to cyber warfare and SCADA, security expert Marcus Ranum offers his picks on the most important security and risk management headlines this year.
Our Runtime Environment
Not hot: Whether you're a Mac, Windows, or Linux user, our runtime environment is crawling with malware and the answer from the vendors appears to be "since no single anti-virus/anti-malware tool works 100%, use several and hope that one gets it." Does that inspire confidence? No? Me either. The battle to preserve control over our runtime continues in 2009 and—based on the past—I can predict another string of defeats.
So, 2009 is going to look a lot like 2008. Why? Because we continue to insist on a 'click to run (anything)' environment, and software of abysmal quality. Happy 2009!!!!
Marcus Ranum is CSO of Tenable Network Security Inc. and a Fortify Software Fellow.
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