Are the Days of Individual Security Over?

angry tapir writes "People solely relying on patching and upgrades are lulling themselves into a false sense of security, and individual protection is no longer sufficient in the age of multi-vector attacks, according to the president of the Australian Internet Industry Association. According to AIIA's Peter Coroneos, vendors need to intervene at the network level and provide security tools at multiple levels to help secure people from the variety of threats that are emerging."

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should the ISP intervene?

[crank-a-doodle]

hmmm.......

"vendors need to intervene at the network level"

Doesn't this seem like just another excuse to let networks censor material by just labeling it insecure?

More weasel words?

[TaoPhoenix]

Rule for the modern world.
1. Assume malice. Once you determine there's no malice, you can go back to your normal discussion.

"need to intervene at the network level and provide security tools at multiple levels to help secure people from the variety of threats that are emerging". That's one of the better ones lately. Ask yourself: what are these security tools capable of doing *besides* stopping viruses?

Re:*yawn*

[HungryHobo]

the solution?
A monoculture of course!
and telling everyone that *someone else* is handling security for them.

Ok, this is coming from Australia

[rolfwind]

So stop taking it seriously. They don't seem to have much respect for the individual in anything anymore:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia

This just looks like another power grab.

Great Firewall v2

[Ltap]

Seems like another argument to take responsibility away from individual users. I'm sure it involves filtering domains that "may be virus vectors and may contain illegal content that the user is being protected from". Little "Great Firewalls" for each ISP? Considering that this is coming from Australia, it might be a part of yet another attempt to push for the creation of a Great Firewall at the ISP level, using "industry standards" to enforce it instead of a law that has to be approved and might be struck down.

Re:Oh and by the way.....

[Excelcior]

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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - one of the best quotes ever, from Benjamin Franklin, 1775.