Nature has evolved over millions of years to produce design answers to complex problems. As the evolution of the security threat landscape continues we can seek answers to the most vexing information security challenges using the same design approaches. This is Biomimicry.
To get a great introduction to Biomimicry I cannot top this fantastic video from Janine Benyus.
We need to look more closely at the amazing feats of biology, chemistry and nature in the wildest sense to examine :
How does nature automate using the most efficient methods and with scarce local resources to achieve brilliance?
How do non-sentient organisms defend themselves against unknowable threats?
How do you process more information than you can focus on to take instinctive action?
How do we build a secure digital future faster than others can tear it apart?
In a series of blog articles I will walk through an intricate design feat, explain in my own words why this design evolved and offer it up to a current security problem such as collecting security information to a central source by studying coral formation.
Let us build a community of like minded individuals who are similarly inspired to generate a future generation of information security solutions.