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SUMMARY:Cybersecurity is a Mess\; is there a Way Out?
DTSTART:20140603T151500
DTSTAMP:20260510T183514Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Brian SNOW\, former Technical Director of NSA\nReports of prob
 lems in cyber security continue to grow week by week. I will discuss\, in 
 part\, what aspects are wrong in current security practice at the conceptu
 al level\, as well as at the implementation level. We also discuss WHY thi
 ngs are wrong\, and HOW they might be fixed.\nA non-exhaustive sample of t
 opics that will be covered:\n1. CONCEPTUAL issues such as the mismatch bet
 ween human trust and cyber trust.\n2. The differences between the straight
 forward effort needed to counter random failures as compared to the diffic
 ult effort to counter a generic malicious attack\, and  finally as compar
 ed to the near-impossible effort to counter a targeted malicious attack.\n
 3. IMPLEMENTATION issues such as inadequate randomization\, protocol error
 s\, inadequate testing of system components\, and absence of essential ass
 urance processes (security "quality control").\n4. System Architectural De
 sign Components\, that if not present will almost guarantee system failure
 .\n5. Characterizing possible successful paths ahead…\n6. Remaining “h
 ard problems”.
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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