Information Security Management, 2nd Edition

12.7 Sociobiologically Inspired Systems—A Final Case

Rather than a short case study to finish off this chapter, let’s develop a more complete case. Adaptive systems security in the future must be able to combine biologically inspired and socially inspired approaches to cybersecurity, especially given three trends: (1) computing devices are becoming more powerful, compact, and mobile; (2) computing devices are increasingly part of sharing resources in a cooperative ad hoc network—such as in peer-to-peer (P2P) and MANET systems; and (3) computing is becoming more virtual, such as distributed through cloud or grid computing infrastructure, which in many cases may be managed and operated by a third party such as with AWS, Microsoft’s Azure, Google ...