Federal government to address Web 2.0 security
Posted by Ken Y-N on August 4th, 2008 at 01:56pm
On the FCW blog I read a post by Mary Mosquera on the federal Chief Information Officers Council’s formation of a committee to investigate issues surrounding information assurance in the Web 2.0 world.
To summarise, they are looking at how to get users to do most of the work for them through social networking, shared document editing, and other Web 2.0 kinds of stuff. The text is full of headache-inducing buzzword-loaded quotes, and one that caught my eye was this:
“The underlying issue is that you’ve got to be able to do trusted computing from anywhere, even non-trusted computers and don’t leave a path behind of your transactions.”
I cannot parse that sentence; the “and don’t leave a path behind” clause looks out of place. Perhaps it means that currently you don’t necessarily leave an audit trail of edits, but that’s not a Web 2.0 issue. If it means that non-trusted computers (for whatever definition of trusted computing that they are using) do not leave behind a verifiable audit trail, then perhaps initiatives such as Trusted Network Connect can help.
Read, if you dare, the full story at the FCW blog here.
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