Here is my impressionistic transcript of the "Decentralized Identity and Security" panel at Supernova 2003, with Marc Hedlund, VP Engineering, Sana; Joe Hildebrand, Chief
Architect, Jabber; Jim Kollegger, CEO, BBX and Nikolaj Nyholm,
Founder, Ascio.
Security is overfunded and overhyped. Customers got burned in the
dotbomb and don't want their critical infrastructure to get
orphaned in a bankruptcy.Biological models help us protect computers at Sana.
Human immune system autonomously defends you without having a
signature file of all known virii. Instead, it looks for abnormal
activitiy. In a computer, this dramatically reduces false
positives and increases protection against new threats, even
without a virus definitions list or a security researcher.A customer of ours — Smith and Hawkins, a retailer — has 50-60
stores with no IT staff, and a central office that manages
security, and has a PoS that runs over the Internet to clear
transactions. Our tech comes out of the Web, not out of
Enterprise Architecture, polling over http with Tomcat, etc. We
adapt to usage patterns in stores and spot anomalies. A firewall
or an IDS would be totally ineffective in this realm, but
autonomous software works.
