I hope to publish my thoughts on innovation around software on this blog. Starting off with my first post.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
We could create an open source platform on one of the open source support sites like SourceForge<\/p>\n
Pillars of platforms around which it should be built (these also give the high level classification of collaboration):<\/p>\n
1. Assets
\n2. Threats
\n3. Defenses
\n4. Strategy<\/p>\n
Assets: 1. Threat level based classification based on location, work done by asset, importance<\/p>\n
Threats: 1. Physical, 2. Cyber 3. Design 4. Evolving and future<\/p>\n
Defenses: 1. Explicit, 2. Implicit 3. Mixed<\/p>\n
Strategy: 1. Offensive, 2. Defensive, 3. Mixed<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
See you later with another innovation thought in few days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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