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07. Meet the Security Scene
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In this section you are going to meet famous people, security experts and
all the folks who in some way contribute to the growth of the community.
We hope that you will enjoy these interviews and that you will learn a lot of
interesting information through this section.In the Christmas issue we have inte
rviewed
Kevin Townsend, the founder of ITSecurity.com - a well known Information Securit
y Portal,
providing its visitors with a unique content for all of their security interests
and needs.
------------------------------------------------------------------Interview with Kevin Townsend, Founder and Editor of ITSecurity.com
Originally taken for HiComm Magazine ( http://www.hicomm.bg/ )
Astalavista: How did you get interested in the Information Security field?
Kevin: More by accident than design. I had been a freelance IT journalist for ma
ny years then we had a child that couldn't sleep. We went through many, many months of
averaging just a couple of hours sleep each night - it played havoc with my free
lancing;
couldn't concentrate, couldn't write, couldn't meet deadlines... In the end I
gave up and got a proper job. It was actually the first thing that came along,
and was marketing manager with a software company that just happened to develop
security software. But from then on I was hooked. Infosec is one of the most fas
cinating
areas there is: good versus bad, light versus dark - the perpetual battlefield
at an intellectual level without any blood.
Astalavista: Share your viewpoint on the constantly increasing malware problem
issue, are we going to see another ILOVEYOU disaster in the near future?
Kevin: I'm sure there will be more malware all the time - and sooner or later, o
ne of them will be dramatic
and disastrous. My biggest fear for the Internet, however, is government interve
ntion. Governments need control,
and they fear lack of control. The weaker they are, the more they need to contro
l - and the world has some
mighty weak people in high office ATM. The Internet is a threat to their control
. They need to control the
Internet in order to control people. Consider this: we call a category of malwar
e 'viruses'.
We do so because they behave like biological viruses. If we continue that analog
y, then the 'system'
they attack (the Internet) equates to the human body.
Now, if a virus attacks a human, we react in several different ways. The 'tradit
ional' method
(it isn't traditional at all; it's very recent) is to attack the virus with
ever-stronger antibiotics, or even the surgeon's knife. But more and more of us
are coming to the
conclusion that this sort of 'quick fix' is no fix at all - all it does is
weaken the immune system and encourage the virus to grow into ever stronger vari
ants.
The real solution is to strengthen the immune system so that the viruses are
tackled and destroyed without causing any damage.
This analogy should be passed back to computer viruses. If governments over-reac
t with increasing penalties
We hope that you enjoyed all of these promotions, we're always devoted to provid
e you with an interactive way of
learning and working with Security information. Astalavista is improving, our st
aff is increasing, so do the services
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the enormous interest you have shown in
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