Episode 48 – Overcoming the IT Security Crisis
Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, begins a three part conversation with Adam Shostack, bandleader of the Emergent Chaos blog site and author, most recently of “The New School of Information Security,” co written with Andrew Stewart. Shostack believes that the current information security crisis results from viewing the problem as a technical one disconnected from social and economic contexts. Here, Shostack cites the work of economist George Akerlof in analyzing economic actor choices in markets characterized by incomplete information, a situation often faced by buyers of software products trying to determine how vulnerable the product is to security attacks.
