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The de-perimeterisation of information security : the Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity
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Spencer, Matt and Pizio, Daniele (2023) The de-perimeterisation of information security : the Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity. Social Studies of Science . doi:10.1177/03063127231221107 ISSN 0306-3127. (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127231221107
Abstract
This article analyses the transformation of information security induced by the Jericho Forum, a group of security professionals who argued for a new ‘de-perimeterised’ security model. Having focused on defensive perimeters around networks, early 2000s information security faced a growing set of pressures: the maintainability of firewalls given increasing traffic volume and variety, the vulnerability of interior network domains, and the need to cope with and enable new working arrangements and ways of doing business. De-perimeterisation was a radical rethinking of the nature of security and created the conditions for the rise of ‘Zero Trust’ architectures. This shift has radical implications for the architectures of digital infrastructures that undergird many aspects of contemporary life, the risks to which people and societies are exposed, and the nature of work and business in a digital economy. We develop a semiotic analysis of the Jericho Forum’s interventions. Using insights from material semiotics, security theory and the theory of narrativity, we argue that de-perimeterisation can be understood as a shift in security logic, or, a shift in how security can (be made to) make sense. We examine a cluster of images used by the Jericho Forum, and analyse how they challenged the coherence of perimeter-based thinking and provided the materials for constructing a new model. We argue that a focus on the narrative dimension of security provides a window into fundamental semantic transformations, reciprocal historical relations between semantics and technical change, the agencement of security technologies, and determinations of value (what is worth securing).
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Computer security, Data protection , Computer networks -- Security measures, Semantics | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social Studies of Science | ||||||
Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||||
ISSN: | 0306-3127 | ||||||
Official Date: | 28 December 2023 | ||||||
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DOI: | 10.1177/03063127231221107 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 December 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 January 2024 | ||||||
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