The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The one action that may make the most difference in how federal agencies secure their computer networks involves no new whiz-bang technology. It has no up-front real-dollar costs either.
He was one of the first computer scientists to dissect the game-changing worm that hit the Internet 25 years ago and took down thousands of computers. He’s also credited for defining software forensics and shaping other security technologies. But Eugene “Spaf” Spafford says security still isn’t taken seriously enough today.
To mark his induction into the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame, Purdue University Computer Science Professor Eugene Spafford offers insights on key challenges, including overcoming senior executives’ misperceptions about key issues.
2014 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS) sponsored by NSA April 8-9, 2014, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
