• "Today’s systems must anticipate future attacks. Any comprehensive system – whether for authenticated communications, secure data storage, or electronic commerce – is likely to remain in use for five years or more. It must be able to withstand the future: smarter attackers, more computational power, and greater incentives to subvert a widespread system. There won’t be time to upgrade it in the field."

    Bruce Schneier, "Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks", 1997

  • “The time needed to factor an RSA integer is the same order as the time needed to use that same integer as modulus for a single RSA encryption.   In other words, it takes no more time to break RSA on a quantum computer (up to a multiplicative constant) than to use it legitimately on a classical computer.”

    Professor Gilles Brassard,  "Quantum Information Processing: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", 1997

  • “The software security industry today is at about the same stage as the auto industry was in 1930" ... "it looks fast, goes nice but in an accident you die.” ... "The major shortfall is absence of assurance (or safety) mechanisms in software. If my car crashed as often as my computer does, I would be dead by now."

    Brian Snow, Former Technical Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), "We need assurance!", 1999-2008

  • “When will we be secure? Nobody knows for sure – but it cannot happen before commercial security products and services possess not only enough functionality to satisfy customers’ stated needs, but also sufficient assurance of quality, reliability, safety, and appropriateness for use. Such assurances are lacking in most of today’s commercial security products and services.”

    Brian Snow, Former Technical Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), "We need Assurance", 2005

  • “The current way which organisations approach security can be recognised as an underlying market failure which consists of fire fighting security problems, silo'd implementation of technologies, uncontrolled application development practices and a failure to address systemic problems. Organisations tend to deal with one problem at a time that results in the deployment of point solutions to treat singular problems. This failure is typical of an uncontrolled marketplace evolving with little or no co-ordination.”

    The British Government’s Technology Strategy Board, 2008

  • “It's not good enough to have a system where everyone (using the system) must be trusted, it must also be made robust against insiders!”

    Robert Morris, former Chief Scientist of the US National Security Agency (NSA), National Computer Security Center, "Crypto '95 invited talks by R. Morris and A. Shamir", 1995

  • "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

  • "There is a good chance that large quantum computers can be built within the next 20 years.  This would be a nightmare for IT security if there are no fully developed, implemented, and standardized post-quantum signature schemes."

    Prof. Johannes Buchmann, et al, “Post-Quantum Signatures”, Oct 2004, Technische Universität Darmstadt

  • “Briefly and simply, assurance work makes a user or a creditor more confident that the system works as intended without flaws, without surprises, even in the presence of malice.” … “The major shortfall is absence of assurance or safety mechanisms in software.  If my car crashed as often as my computer does, I’d be dead by now.”

    Brian Snow, Former Technical Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), "We need Assurance", AusCERT 2008

  • "But conventional security is not enough. The complexity of today's operational environment means organisations must embrace a level of business resilience that is normally associated with the protection of critical national infrastructure."

    Detica, a BAE Systems Company

  • "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

  • “Never underestimate the attention, risk, money and time that an opponent will put into reading traffic.”

    Robert Morris, former Chief Scientist of the US National Security Agency (NSA), National Computer Security Center, "Crypto '95 invited talks by R. Morris and A. Shamir", 1995

  • “Assurance is best addressed during the initial design and engineering of security systems, NOT as an after market patch. The earlier you include a security architect in your design process, the greater the likely hood of a successful and robust design. As the quip goes, he who gets to the (module) interface first wins.”

    Brian Snow, Former Technical Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), "We need Assurance", AusCERT 2008

Resources Security bibliography Security recommendations bibliography: D3.3 – ICT Security & Dependability Research beyond 2010: Final Strategy
bibliography: D3.3 – ICT Security & Dependability Research beyond 2010: Final Strategy
Security bibliography - Security recommendations
Project Title: Co-ordinating the development of a Strategic Research Agenda for Security and Dependability R&D (Steering Committee for a European Security & Dependability Taskforce)
Authors: Zeta Dooly, Jim Clarke, W. Fitzgerald, W. Donnelly, WIT; Michel Riguidel, ENST; Keith Howker, Vodafone
Contributions: SecurIST Partners, SecurIST Advisory board, STF leaders, STF members and other FP5 and FP6 project members involved in ICT Trust, Security and Dependability.
Organisation: Information Society Technologies
Date: 30 January, 2007
Keywords:
Electronic Publication: d3_3_final_strategy_report_v1_0.pdf
Abstract:

"This deliverable is the key result of the SecurIST Project Work Package 3 – ICT Security & Dependability Research strategy beyond 2010 – whose ultimate purpose is to create a clear European level strategy to drive ICT Security and Dependability research beyond 2010. Its focus is on medium (up to 3 years) and long-term objectives (~3-10 years).

The document develops the context of the research strategy, setting its objectives, laying out clear objectives backed by detailed content and identifies instruments capable of implementing this strategy.

It elaborates upon the Strategic Research Agenda for ICT Security & Dependability Research beyond 2010 facilitating the transition to FP7." ...
Quote:

"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 which may need to offer in some cases security for 50 to 100 years."
Quote: "Many of the findings and recommendations of this deliverable call for continuing effort in already established fields – cryptography, trusted components and systems – that provide underlying techniques and technologies. More novel approaches are called for in, for instance, the relationships between the human user and the digital world, with responsibilities and rights moving from central command and control towards the individual, as the boundaries between technical and operational domains become increasingly fuzzy. Simultaneously, the requirements for increased personal privacy and anonymity must be balanced by the needs of society as a whole for appropriate accountability."
See:
Citation: Secure IST,  “D3.3 – ICT Security & Dependability Research beyond 2010: Final Strategy”,  January 2007
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