Security Outlook Bleak, Improving

More complex devices, better SoCs coming

Rick Merritt, EETimes
1/22/2016 10:41 AM EST

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The short term outlook for security is bleak, but a combination of better engineering and more spending should reap long-term benefits, said Paul Kocher, a security expert in a keynote at DesignCon here.

The growing number and complexity of devices will continue to outstrip our ability to secure them for the next few years during which time “we’ll see a lot of failures,” said Kocher, the chief scientist of the cryptography research division of Rambus.

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