Can Cloud Bridge The Security Generation Gap?
October 20, 2009 By Peter Judge Individual security professionals are never going to cope with the diversity of their users’ behaviour, says Peter Judge. Is there a way to satisfy all the needs of all concerned? Security brings out people’s differences like no other IT issue. There is a massive generation gap in attitudes to security, and it is fuelling the security skills crisis. Amongst users, young people are happy to put almost any information online in communities like Facebook, and this worries the old guard in It security, says John Colley of (ISC)2, and this worries the old guard. Meanwhile, however, another generation could be more problematic. The older “catch-up” generation sees the arrival of Web 2.0 technologies, and is trying its best to get on board. Not having grown up with digital technologies, this group is much more likely to make elementary security mistakes. Managing this disparity is an impossible task, and makes current security work unforgiving and unrewarding.
