The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

Chris Demchak - US Naval War College

Students: Spring 2025, unless noted otherwise, sessions will be virtual on Zoom.

Cyber's Offspring: AI and the Missing Security Mindset

Apr 26, 2023

Abstract

As cyber's offspring, AI and its advanced technology brethren inherit the insecurity of the cyberspace substrate underlying digitized societies. Numerous articles have heralded the possibilities for hacking of ML models, data sets, and every aspect of the AI development chain in a breathless urgent tone suggesting these threats are surprising. In reality, whatever is left insecure in the cyber infrastructure will offer malicious avenues into the AI/ML development cycle and any subsequent tools, models, or databases resting on that firmament. This talk will review the challenges of secure AI/ML development given its cyber genealogy and suggest some potential systemic solutions.

About the Speaker

Chris Demchak
With engineering, economics, and comparative complex organization theory/political science degrees, Dr. Chris C. Demchak is the RDML Grace M. Hopper Professor of Cyber Security and a member of the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute, U.S. Naval War College. In her research on cyberspace as a globally shared insecure complex ‘substrate', Demchak takes a systemic approach to emergent structures, comparative institutional evolution, adversaries' use of systemic cybered tools, virtual worlds/gaming for operationalized organizational learning, and designing systemic resilience against imposed surprise.


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