Frequent Black Hat speaker and security guru Bruce Schneier spoke Monday, November to the CIPS (Canadian Information Processing Society)

>From a speech that seems to have contained a fair amount of pessimism about the state of information security comes this concise and cogent analysis of the way forward in credit card and ATM security


Summarized in the Edmonton Journal entitled "Criminal hackers gaining advantage":

Some of the biggest improvements have come from government regulations forcing companies to make more disclosures to their customers, and make their data safer, Schneier said.

Credit card and ATM security improved in the U.S. when the onus was put on the companies to be responsible for money lost through fraud. In the U.K, the courts ruled customers had to prove they were not at fault, and so security did not improve. The U.K. has since reversed that stand.

"This is going to be a much bigger trend in future years as governments get more involved."


To learn more about Bruce Schneier, you can look here to read his bio and his talk abstract from this Black Hat USA 2007:

https://blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-07/bh-usa-07-speakers.html#Schneier

To read Bruce's informative and entertaining blog, follow this link:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/

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