Future internet security to be built-in
The head of BT’s managed services devision, BT Counterpane, Bruce Schneier found customer confusion and few sales at the recently ended RSA Conference in San Francisco.
Writing in Wired, Schneier restated his view that the days of the end-user security industry that gathers at the RSA Conference are numbered.
‘When something becomes infrastructure,’ Schneier wrote, ‘customers care less about details and more about results. Technological innovations become something the infrastructure providers pay attention to, and they package it for their customers.’
‘No one wants to buy security,’ he contined. ‘They want to buy something truly useful – database management systems, Web 2.0 collaboration tools, a company-wide network – and they want it to be secure. They don't want to have to become IT security experts.’
As we argued in our Security Round-Up, the issue has become too demanding for individuals.
Schneier concludes that RSA Conference will become inward-facing, slowly turning into an industry conference where security companies sell to the companies who sell to corporate and home users.
Even allowing for his clear self-interest in predicting a wholesale move towards managed services, he may well have a point.
