IMAGINING TOMORROW: BUSINESS FUTURES | 75 OCTOBER 1, 2023 For anyone who still isn’t familiar What does the assessment with Securating, who are you and process involve? what do you do? KH: We send a team into the organization KH: The Securating Foundation was set up by itself to ask questions and look at its setup. a group of Silicon Valley philanthropists who And, we work with teams of white-hat perceived the need for a kind of quality assurance hackers who try to take them down. That’s scheme for online security—like “organic” labels an ongoing service, by the way. The in-house on food—to guide consumers who are looking assessments are periodical, but a company for a higher set of standards. We hoped to create can have its rating downgraded at any time a virtuous circle effect. The more consumers if we find a vulnerability and we don’t think reward companies for having demonstrably good they deal with it quickly enough. security, the more these companies will feature a good Securating score in their advertising, the more consumers will pick up the idea that this is something they ought to care about—and the higher the number of companies who will pay us to rate them. THE WORLD OF REDESIGNING THE IMAGINATION TTHHE AE AGGE OE OFF “TECHNO-POLITICS” LIFE ECONOMY ((IINN))SESECUCURITRITYY