The Cybersecurity Mess

Outline of Talk

1. Start with some recent headlines from Info Sec News

1. Today's systems are less secure than those of the 1970s

• • Computers are more complex — more places to attack them.
  • Tere 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

• Digital Signatures: Current Barriers, April 7, 2011

Articles

• Garfinkel, S. The Cybersecurity Risk, Communications of the ACM, June 2012