A Plan to Rebuild Computer Security From the Ground Up

Martin Casado once worked on some of the most secure computer networks ever built. And keeping them secure, he says, was a complete nightmare.

A decade ago, Casado was a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Northern California — the venerable R&D facility that feeds various parts of the federal government — and in this role, he helped oversee networks operated by some of the largest U.S. intelligence agencies. Because he’s still not cleared to do so, he won’t say which agencies he worked for, but he will tell you that, despite the government’s virtually unlimited budget, he and his fellow engineers faced the same enormous difficulties that any organization faces in trying to secure its networks. The world’s computer and networking hardware, he says, just isn’t designed in a way that you can readily shape security systems and policies.

By Cade Metz

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