Difference between revisions of "The Cybersecurity Mess"
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# Start with some recent headlines from [http://www.infosecnews.org Info Sec News] | # Start with some recent headlines from [http://www.infosecnews.org Info Sec News] | ||
# Today's systems are less secure than those of the 1970s | # Today's systems are less secure than those of the 1970s | ||
## Computers are more complex — more places to attack them. | |||
## There are multiple ways around each defense. | |||
## It’s easier to attack systems than defend them. | |||
## It’s easier to break things than to fix them. | |||
==Cybersecurity Mess Slides== | ==Cybersecurity Mess Slides== |
Revision as of 19:05, 20 March 2014
Outline of Talk
- Start with some recent headlines from Info Sec News
- Today's systems are less secure than those of the 1970s
- Computers are more complex — more places to attack them.
- There are multiple ways around each defense.
- It’s easier to attack systems than defend them.
- It’s easier to break things than to fix them.
Cybersecurity Mess Slides
- 2013-May-16 — Talk to MIT Club of DC
- 2013-Jan-11 — Talk in Alexandria to Scholarship for Service students
- 2012-04-25 — First talk @MIT
Related Slides
Articles
- Garfinkel, S. The Cybersecurity Risk, Communications of the ACM, June 2012