Podcasts, Cybersecurity, and Security Risk Assessment and Analysis

This 40 minute podcast features a keynote address by Rebecca Whitener, Former Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management and Chief Risk Officer at EDS. Her speech, "Addressing Complex Security Threats Through Risk Management," was recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Security Conference in Arlington, Virginia.

In this session, we address the current cybersecurity issues that are challenging higher education leaders today as they try to stay on top of the risks associated with attacks on information systems from internal and external sources. Emerging enterprise risk management (ERM) methodologies are examined as a source of guidance for creating an effective risk-based approach for managing current and future threats.

In this 43 minute podcast, we feature a keynote speech by Bruce Schneier, author and Chief Technology Officer for BT Counterpane, Inc. This speech was delivered at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington on October 26th, 2007. It is entitled "Bruce Schneier on Information Security: Ten Trends".

Surveying current trends in information security, it’s clear that a myriad of forces are at work. But fundamentally, security is all about economics: both attacker and defender are trying to maximize the return on their investments. Economics can both explain why security fails so often and offer new solutions for its success. For example, often the people who could protect a system are not those who suffer the costs of failure. Changing these economic incentives will do more to improve security than will more technology.