Trust Decisions are being made every few seconds as we navigate our
way across the Internet oceans. After attending the RSA Conference 2015
in San Francisco this past week, there are many unanswered questions for
the end users and the industry. CIO's, CPO's and CISO's across the
globe must be in awe of what we have created, to try to secure and
govern the data flowing through the Internet.
The Operational Risk Management (ORM) landscape at RSA included analytics and forensics, cloud, C-Suite view, data security & privacy, governance risk & compliance, law, mobile security, policy and government and many others. Walking the North and South Expo Halls at Moscone Center, was an immersion into the complexity and the duplicity of the current state of the information security and privacy ecosystem.
The pursuit of "Digital Trust" is a quest that the human brain is incapable of precise understanding, without the use and aide of our modern computers. The rulebases are too large and the speed of transactions are too fast, for the human brain to process all of the rules simultaneously. We know why we designed these tools and machines, to augment our human information processing capabilities.
The trust decisions we make to click on a link or download a new app is based upon many factors. The evolution of the Internet and the trust we have placed in the links across the World Wide Web are now more scrutinized. The threat of clicking on the wrong link or downloading a malicious file can cost our enterprise hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
The RSA Conference is more evidence of our continued digital governance failure. It is also necessary to achieve future progress. Is it the manifestation of our inability as humans to establish and maintain the trustworthiness of systems and of standards? The dawn of a new era for making digital "Trust Decisions" is upon us. How shall we proceed to enable the next generation of the Internet and why? Over a decade ago, researchers at the USC Information Sciences Institute were on to something:
In the next decade and beyond, bringing order to chaos is the ultimate challenge for our industry and our global persistence. The necessity for nation states to trade and exchange funds in a digital world is paramount. The barriers to human communication and pervasive language translation are enabled by our digital creativity. The ability to detect threats and defend ourselves utilizing sophisticated sensors on land and in space, will continue to help preserve our existence.
There are Operational Risk Management (ORM) inventions and new solutions yet undiscovered, that will provide the model and the global standards for making more precise and effective digital trust decisions. The future is bright...
The Operational Risk Management (ORM) landscape at RSA included analytics and forensics, cloud, C-Suite view, data security & privacy, governance risk & compliance, law, mobile security, policy and government and many others. Walking the North and South Expo Halls at Moscone Center, was an immersion into the complexity and the duplicity of the current state of the information security and privacy ecosystem.
The pursuit of "Digital Trust" is a quest that the human brain is incapable of precise understanding, without the use and aide of our modern computers. The rulebases are too large and the speed of transactions are too fast, for the human brain to process all of the rules simultaneously. We know why we designed these tools and machines, to augment our human information processing capabilities.
The trust decisions we make to click on a link or download a new app is based upon many factors. The evolution of the Internet and the trust we have placed in the links across the World Wide Web are now more scrutinized. The threat of clicking on the wrong link or downloading a malicious file can cost our enterprise hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
The RSA Conference is more evidence of our continued digital governance failure. It is also necessary to achieve future progress. Is it the manifestation of our inability as humans to establish and maintain the trustworthiness of systems and of standards? The dawn of a new era for making digital "Trust Decisions" is upon us. How shall we proceed to enable the next generation of the Internet and why? Over a decade ago, researchers at the USC Information Sciences Institute were on to something:
Traditional trust management solutions [2] do not adequately address dynamic aspects of trust. The pre-configured, coarse and static specification of trust in conventional systems is not consistent with human intuitions of trust [11], an individual’s opinion of another entity that can evolve based on available evidence. Thus, trust relationships evolve over time and require monitoring and reevaluation. The dynamic and temporal nature of VOs (Virtual Organizations) present additional trust management challenges:In our massive systems-of-systems and the growing dynamic of virtual environments, "Trust Decisions" are being made at light speed. The rulebases that are known and the identities and attributions associated with them are constantly changing.
- temporary, as opposed to long lived, relationships present a major obstacle for trust development, since short term relationships promote “take and run” behavior;
- parties may not have pre-existing knowledge about one another, or any prior interactions with one another.
In the next decade and beyond, bringing order to chaos is the ultimate challenge for our industry and our global persistence. The necessity for nation states to trade and exchange funds in a digital world is paramount. The barriers to human communication and pervasive language translation are enabled by our digital creativity. The ability to detect threats and defend ourselves utilizing sophisticated sensors on land and in space, will continue to help preserve our existence.
There are Operational Risk Management (ORM) inventions and new solutions yet undiscovered, that will provide the model and the global standards for making more precise and effective digital trust decisions. The future is bright...
