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Moreover, security will be an
enabler for other cyber-physical sce-
narios, such as collaboration in the
office of the future or personalized
healthcare. We need to make inter-
actions safe and seamless for users,
and manageable for corporations and
administrators. A simple example is
authentication where we are work-
ing to move beyond passwords and
allow for seamless but reliable user
authentication experiences, with
appropriate levels of security and
assurance of privacy.
The trustworthiness of tomor-
row’s infrastructure will critically
depend on the resilience of endpoint
devices to cyber attacks. After twenty
years in device security research lead-
ership, we continue to pursue security
innovation to help build in further
security assurances into hardware,
creating devices that can help detect
and isolate breaches, and recover
from them, all at considerable scale
and with minimum inconvenience
to the user. Critically, we pursue
research into improving operational
security management techniques to
allow our customers to maintain con-
trol over increasingly large amounts
of devices, data, and their interac-
tions, at reasonable cost and with the
best security assurances possible.
Importantly, we work hard to
keep abreast of the fast-evolving
threat environment. We do this in
multiple ways, from engaging with
other experts across academia, gov-
ernments, and industry, and with
HP’s own Security Advisory Board.
But we also operate our own Attack
and Malware Lab, an isolated envi-
ronment we use to investigate the
state of the art in malicious software
and attack capabilities. This allows
our teams to experiment with mal-
ware in a contained environment,
better understand our adversaries,
and test our research approaches to
detecting, mitigating, or managing
infrastructure recovery from real-
world attacks.
At HP’s Security Lab, we pursue
long-term research, working closely
with HP businesses to ensure we can
deliver cybersecurity innovations into
HP products, services, and solutions
that will truly help improve security,
and minimize the cost of operation
and ease of use for individuals and
corporations alike. Our work takes
us beyond HP into global standards
organizations and into collaborations
with industrial and academic part-
ners, as well as leading customers,
with whom we must join forces to
advance the cybersecurity state of the
art and move our industry forward
towards a safer, more resilient future.
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