Keynote Session: Surviving in a Feudal Security World

Feudalism is an apt model for security today.  We pledge our allegiance to service providers, and we expect them to provide us with security in return.  More and more, this security is completely opaque; we cannot audit it, and we don't know details about how it works.  This power relationship is fueled by two trends: the ubiquity of cloud services, and the increasing control by the manufacturers of our computing platforms.  The security results vary, though.  The average cloud provider does a better job at security than the average home user, but isn't nearly secure enough to satisfy the needs of many large corporations.  Navigating this new world of feudal security is going to be the major challenge in the current decade.  This talk examines both the challenges and the solutions.