2011 saw the untimely death of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, and as we recognized his many accomplishments, the full impact he left on the world is still hard to believe. While his loss will certainly reverberate across Apple Corporation and the tech industry as a whole, I wondered what message this visionary man left the security industry.
When the darling of Wall Street and geeks took the stage at the early June Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs' message was to embrace the cloud. What he called a “breakthrough,” Jobs walked through a multi-media presentation on his firm’s iCloud, a set of free services that work seamlessly with applications on consumers’ iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC so that users can automatically and wirelessly store content in iCloud and automatically and wirelessly push it to all types of devices.