How are games a harbinger of the future of software security?
We can look at what is happening in online games as a bellwether for the sorts of attacks that we’re going to see in much more important software systems coming down the line. We can study these games and play around and figure out how hackers cheat and how they do things like teleport around the world and generate virtual wealth, and we can learn really important lessons for the future of software security at the same time. Can you provide an example? In a [Department of Defense] situation, the entire network is going to be a trusted network. It changes the threat model pretty significantly. Going after the control system for drones would be rather silly. What you would want to go after–to really cause havoc–would be back-end office systems, things that get the food to the guys in Iraq. Do games present a solution? The vertical that is leading the charge is not games, it’s the financial industry. If you look at investment banks, Wall Street, the credit card consortia–those guys hav
