Cybersecurity is a Mess; is there a Way Out?
Event details
| Date | 03.06.2014 |
| Hour | 15:15 |
| Speaker | Brian SNOW, former Technical Director of NSA |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Reports of problems in cyber security continue to grow week by week. I will discuss, in part, what aspects are wrong in current security practice at the conceptual level, as well as at the implementation level. We also discuss WHY things are wrong, and HOW they might be fixed.
A non-exhaustive sample of topics that will be covered:
1. CONCEPTUAL issues such as the mismatch between human trust and cyber trust.
2. The differences between the straightforward effort needed to counter random failures as compared to the difficult effort to counter a generic malicious attack, and finally as compared to the near-impossible effort to counter a targeted malicious attack.
3. IMPLEMENTATION issues such as inadequate randomization, protocol errors, inadequate testing of system components, and absence of essential assurance processes (security "quality control").
4. System Architectural Design Components, that if not present will almost guarantee system failure.
5. Characterizing possible successful paths ahead…
6. Remaining “hard problems”.
A non-exhaustive sample of topics that will be covered:
1. CONCEPTUAL issues such as the mismatch between human trust and cyber trust.
2. The differences between the straightforward effort needed to counter random failures as compared to the difficult effort to counter a generic malicious attack, and finally as compared to the near-impossible effort to counter a targeted malicious attack.
3. IMPLEMENTATION issues such as inadequate randomization, protocol errors, inadequate testing of system components, and absence of essential assurance processes (security "quality control").
4. System Architectural Design Components, that if not present will almost guarantee system failure.
5. Characterizing possible successful paths ahead…
6. Remaining “hard problems”.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Arjen Lenstra
Contact
- Sylvie Thomet