LEF Technology Program Report
Digital Trust: Liquid Security: When Time, Place and Platform Don't Matter, Volume 5
19 October 2007
The digital enterprise is becoming liquid. When the fixed or predictable dimensions of time, place and information technology (IT) platform become variable, the digital enterprise changes character and becomes more agile, efficient and prosperous. Work can happen around the clock, from all sorts of locations, on all manner of computers and mobile devices. This new character of the enterprise reflects the liquid properties of time, place and platform. In taking advantage of these new properties and freeing itself from traditional constraints, the liquid enterprise demands that digital trust be equally liquid to sustain value generation without making assumptions about the clock, geography or equipment involved.