Technology's biggest challenge is keeping data secure

Gates says technology's biggest challenge is keeping data secure

Over the summer of 2006, I have been an intern at the PRIMS Lab in UMass. I have researched about computer security over the networks and through the RFID cards with a graduate student and a professor. I have realized there are much fields about the security than I realized. There were so much things to learn about the security and data mining, and the world live in is just fully of security breaches and people who are trying to hack into other systems or steal other people's identities.

In San Francisco, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said that keeping information secure in this age of laptop-lugging workers is the tech industry's most formidable challenge. Everyday programmers build the bigger and bigger fortress walls - to protect the corporate secrete data. In that conference, Gates repeated that Windows Vista, which was launched last month, was the most secure operating system in the company's history.

I have learned, through doing that internship, nothing is secure and safe. People are constantly trying to break the security, and also other people are trying to keep those people from getting into the system. Gates knows and told in the conference that there is no software out there which is immune to attacks from the third-party software.

As more technologies advance in the world, technologies in breaking the security will also advance as well. Advancing technologies is not making the software comfortable to use for the users nor making everything work, but now it became to keep everything secure and safe. As we learned in the lecture today, there are not much laws about computer security. I have applied to different computer science graduate schools, and this is why I want to pursue my
goals in researching about data mining and security in the web.


Mike Ro




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Gates says technology's biggest challenge is keeping data secure
POSTED: Tue, Feb. 06, 2007
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