I hope to publish my thoughts on innovation around software on this blog. Starting off with my first post.
We live in a world where security has now evolved from physical to cyber to multiple levels and context. Open source software has been a revolution which now is reaching us at all levels: Mobile (Android), Enterprise software (Liferay, Alfresco, Hadoop, MongoDB, etc.) and it caters to security in a holistic way by allowing people/groups to pick holes in the systems and thus, giving opportunity to authorities to fix them in the background and allow improvements.
Similarly we can device a system based on open source principles for security of physical / real world installations via an open source and collaborative platform
We could create an open source platform on one of the open source support sites like SourceForge
Pillars of platforms around which it should be built (these also give the high level classification of collaboration):
1. Assets
2. Threats
3. Defenses
4. Strategy
Assets: 1. Threat level based classification based on location, work done by asset, importance
Threats: 1. Physical, 2. Cyber 3. Design 4. Evolving and future
Defenses: 1. Explicit, 2. Implicit 3. Mixed
Strategy: 1. Offensive, 2. Defensive, 3. Mixed
People can come and post installations (Assets), then debate/discuss issues (Threats), find and suggest solutions (Defenses) and based on these three suggest overall Strategy to mitigate risks
See you later with another innovation thought in few days
