The New Year's Eve confetti had barely been swept up when the first headline-grabbing computer security problem of 2018 made the news. As you may have seen, on January 3rd of this year, it was revealed that a set of security flaws affects nearly every processor made by Intel, AMD, ARM, and Qualcomm over the past 20 years.

At a comedy show I attended over the weekend, I heard a comedian tell a funny story about a guy she had met on a dating site. They hadn't gotten together yet, but had exchanged a few messages through the site. To this point, all they had was each other's first names and a photo.

Who Are You? Identity is the Key to Everything
In 2017, security revolves around your identity. The principle of knowing and verifying who you are is the key to granting you access to resources and data that you have appropriate permissions for.

Hardware and software firewalls and filters are still important, to be sure.