• "The security of the digital world has become a fundamental stake for the citizen with respect to his individual freedom ..., for the company with respect to the protection of its computerized industrial assets, ..., and for the state with respect to the reliability of operations and the reduction in the vulnerability of large and critical infrastructures ...”

    SecurIST, “D3.3 – ICT Security & Dependability Research beyond 2010: Final Strategy”, January 2007
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  • "History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you'll be glad you did."

    Bruce Schneier, "Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks", 1997
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  • "My colleagues at MIT and I have been building simple quantum computers and executing quantum algorithms since 1996, as have other scientists around the world. Quantum computers work as promised. If they can be scaled up, to thousands or tens of thousands of qubits from their current size of a dozen or so, watch out!”

    Prof Seth Lloyd of MIT, MIT Review 2008

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Home Resources Expert Opinions Information assurance quote: SecurIST, Need to offer security for 50 to 100 years
quote: SecurIST, Need to offer security for 50 to 100 years

Security and dependability issues typically go along with the life cycle of a technology. The trend to first deploy a technology and later fix its problems – typically driven by economic motives – is gradually making way for security by design, resulting in improved security at the beginning of the life cycle.

Unfortunately, the security issues of a technology near the end of its lifetime are typically overlooked. The best known example is that of cryptographic keys and algorithms (cf. supra) which may need to offer in some cases security for 50 to 100 years.

SecurIST, “D3.3 – ICT Security & Dependability Research beyond 2010: Final Strategy”, January 2007
 

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