chrisn-585491 (10/30/2014)
As IT professionals, we shall do our best, of course, but we are essentially in a reactive position.
We could use programming languages to build our operating systems that are not subject to buffer overflows and microprocessors that are not suspect to stack smashing, but the industry has adapted to: "Worse is Better" so C, C++, Intel and browser based applications won...
Good suggestions all; these would represent security improvements and make life more challenging for the 'black hats'.
However, even 'more secure' operating systems such as Linux have exploitable vulnerabilities. We are engaged in a constant evolutionary 'predator/prey' race, in which there is no finish line.