The Cybersecurity Mess

Outline of Talk

1. Start with some recent headlines from Info Sec News
2. Today's systems are less secure than those of the 1970s
   1. Computers are more complex — more places to attack them.
   2. There are multiple ways around each defense.
   3. It’s easier to attack systems than defend them.
   4. 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