Leaders of the Industry Pack

We turn the spotlight on the noteworthy professionals who are influencing the future of information security.

by Ilena Armstrong
SC Magazine
9 December 2005
Excerpt

Bruce Schneier, CTO of Counterpane Internet Security. The seemingly constant industry buzz surrounding Schneier is well-deserved. With a trail of bestselling books in his wake and two encryption algorithms, Blowfish and Twofish, to his credit, Schneier is well-placed to discuss IT security-related issues in his free monthly newsletter Crypto-Gram.

Most recently, he questioned reported comments made by Howard Schmidt about holding programmers personally accountable for insecure code. Schneier believes that the software manufacturers should be liable, even if the additional costs for making products more secure fall on consumers. He says that more secure solutions would be cost-effective in the long run, since users already pay more than they bargained for to fix holes in products they have deployed.

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