Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf Calls for Rapid Web Security Enhancements

If there was a common thread to Vint Cerf’s wide-ranging remarks at the National Press Club on May 4, it was that pretty much everyone involved in the Internet needs to get better at security.

But Cerf, who is frequently called the “Father of the Internet” and who invented the TCP/IP network protocol, said the world needs to move faster to version 6 of that protocol. Furthermore, he said that governments in general and the U.S. government in particular have to change their thinking about the Internet.