{"id":29624,"date":"2016-09-01T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T01:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/vint-cerfs-outlook-for-the-internet-he-helped-create"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:18:42","slug":"vint-cerfs-outlook-for-the-internet-he-helped-create","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/vint-cerfs-outlook-for-the-internet-he-helped-create","title":{"rendered":"Vint Cerf\u2019s Outlook for the Internet He Helped Create"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vint-cerfs-outlook-for-the-internet-he-helped-create.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Internet pioneer Vint Cerf sees a secure future for the network of networks he helped create four decades ago as the co-developer of TCP\/IP, the protocol that facilitates internet communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re much more conscious of the need to make the system more secure than it has been,\u201d Cerf, Google\u2019s chief internet evangelist, says in an interview with Information Security Media Group. \u201cAnd there\u2019s a lot going on in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ietf.org\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Engineering Task Force<\/a> [an international community of network designers, operators, vendors and researchers] to achieve that objective. And I anticipate in the course of the next decade or so that we will actually see a lot more mechanisms in place in order to enhance security and privacy and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But if internet security isn\u2019t improved, Cerf says, \u201cpeople will decide it\u2019s not an environment they find worthy of trust, in which case they\u2019ll look for something else. Maybe, something will replace the internet that\u2019s more secure than it is today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/interviews\/vint-cerfs-optimistic-vision-internet-he-helped-create-i-3314\">http:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/interviews\/vint-cerfs-optimi...ate-i-3314<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet pioneer Vint Cerf sees a secure future for the network of networks he helped create four decades ago as the co-developer of TCP\/IP, the protocol that facilitates internet communications. \u201cWe\u2019re much more conscious of the need to make the system more secure than it has been,\u201d Cerf, Google\u2019s chief internet evangelist, says in an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,38,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-engineering","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66356,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624\/revisions\/66356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}