A second look at the so-called concept of Security

Security also brings with it the connotation of secrecy. Something that is secure also has to be kept a secret. For example, you have a high-end security system at your office and only you can enter a particular cabin using your access card and others cannot get in without having similar permissions or access rights on their access card. Now, quite obviously the company maintains the coding and the technology behind this card system a secret. The Company knows the code is secure and no one out there will know.

Not quite right. What the Company is doing here is closing itself to the possibility of someone cracking their secret. As a result the technology is perceived as indegenious and quite affirmatively even leak proof. The problem with this is that, if someone can crack into this technology and crack the code, there are limitless possibilities of fraud and guess what? The company will never know what is happening.

Off late the concept of security is being revisited. There is a need to make a technology more publicly accessible so that possiblities of fraud become more easily detectable. Its good for the technology too as upgrades, enhancements become the order of the day.