Craig Burton

This post covering a talk given by Shéna Boswell-Crowe, a special agent with the FBI, at the McAfee Avert Labs Day last week is interesting. (Thanks to Eric Maiwald for forwarding me the link.) You should read the article in its entirety, but in summary, Boswell-Crowe says that only some catastrophic problem on the scale of Enron’s failure will cause politicians, business people, and other constituencies to confront cyber crime in any meaningful way.

The article caught my eye because it raises several issues related to identity-based security, which people often relate with cyber crime. The thinking goes something like this: “We must address the identity issue, or cyber crime will lay the Internet, and all of its promise, to waste.”

There’s validity in that argument.

Unfortunately, there’s also validity in Boswell-Crowe’s. In fact, one could reasonably argue

// posted by Craig @ 1:00 PM