Current headlines remind us that security matters, in all of its forms. Top of mind for those of us in the cybersecurity community is whether critical infrastructure functions, defense forces can communicate, citizens are accessing truthful information, and the technology underpinnings of economic and national security can be trusted and are available.
Anxiety is not translating into commensurate action to protect their personal data online. It is essential that those of us in technology leadership positions boost public awareness and help users adopt smart and simple steps they can take to regain control over their online security.
A senior delegation from Trusted Future traveled to Germany for the Munich Security Conference. We hosted a dinner at the conference site on Friday, February 18th featuring high-level European and American security, intelligence, law enforcement, and telecommunications industry officials.
Our survey research shows the various dimensions of today’s trust gap, explores the way it is impeding important digital progress, highlights the key factors which must be overcome, and explores the vast opportunities that can be achieved when we do. These survey results, when combined with other insights and research, highlight the need for pragmatic policy choices and provide a potential pathway for advancing trusted frameworks that can facilitate comprehensive action toward a more trusted digital future.
We stand on the precipice of a new era of technological progress and innovation with the potential to enable us to do things never before possible, vastly improve the quality of life for billions around the globe, and help solve some of our world’s most intractable problems. But it is becoming increasingly clear that we risk missing or delaying these transformational opportunities if people lack the foundational trust in the technologies needed to deliver them.
Practicing good basic cyber hygiene is one of the best, and easiest, ways people can protect themselves from cyber criminals and others that mean you harm. Experts estimate that over 80% of cyber incidents could have been stopped if the targets had adopted good cyber hygiene practices. Adoption of basic and widely recognized cyber hygiene best practices can be one of the first and most important defenses people can employ to better protect themselves from ever-evolving and increasing cyber threats.
We need the ability to trust that the technologies and services we use are secure by design. Our digital ecosystem is under near constant threat