The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
“The climate the press has created is that hackers are somehow supernatural and can’t be stopped; everybody falls victim,” says Gene Spafford, a Purdue University computer professor and executive director of its Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security. “So long as the head of IT can say ‘It happens to everybody, even the government and security vendors,’ it will be difficult to blame them for not taking appropriate measures.”
According to a survey conducted by Purdue University and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) in association with McAfee, as much as $1 trillion of intellectual property is stolen by cybercriminals each year.
Data security scholar Eugene Spafford argues that the subject needs to be taken more seriously at the highest levels of companies.
The repeated incidents should have warned Sony its online network was vulnerable, said Eugene Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The failure to enact safeguards such as appointing a single chief of security may show Sony misunderstands the risks inherent in Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer’s networked strategy, he said.
The sensor research is looking at ways to place sensors in a network “so you don’t slow it down, you don’t generate too many false alarms, and you don’t have to spend too much on sensors,” added Eugene Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue.
Three problems face anyone trying to justify retaliation for a cyber attack: where did it come from, who did it and what response is appropriate, explained Eugene H. Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, and director of the school’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security.
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and three of the nation’s leading cybersecurity research universities, Carnegie Mellon University, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Purdue University, announced today the progress they have made in developing solutions for pressing cybersecurity threats during a briefing at the National Press Club.
