Yes this could be a 500 page book, but I’m going to try to present the future of security in fewer than 1,200 words.
Up to now in this anniversary series, my fellow Symantecites have been discussing what has happened over the past 25 years around security and how Symantec and the industry have grown to meet these challenges in a number of areas, from malicious code and vulnerabilities through to modern day threats such as phishing. We’ve come from a world of floppy disks and modems into a world so connected and converged that few of us could have imagined how it would have become so in such a short time. The rate at which technology has evolved and been adopted has, at times, left security analysts scrabbling to catch up – which, in turn, has created significant risks.
First a little history: I’m one of the many people who came to work for Symantec via acquisition. I used worked for @stake in Europe for a number of years before the acquisition as a...
