EDUCAUSE | Podcasts, Cybersecurity, and Security Planning

EDUCAUSE Live! Podcast: What Price Insularity? Reflections About Computer Security Failings.

gbayne — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:27:05 -0600

In this EDUCAUSE Live! podcast, join host, Steve Worona, for the topic "What Price Insularity? Reflections About Computer Security Failings". Steve's guest is Fred Schneider, Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.

Presentation slides for this audio can be found here.

Why is it risky for technologists to ignore the nontechnical context where their systems will be deployed? Furthermore, what is the risk when policymakers ignore the limits and potential of technology? How can we structure dialogue between technologists and policymakers to address security failings—to revisit identity theft, electronic voting machines, digital rights management, and network neutrality? Fred Schneider, editor of the National Research Council study Trust in Cyberspace and longtime researcher on what makes computer systems secure, considers these and other questions.

E07 Podcast: Bruce Schneier on Information Security: Ten Trends

gbayne — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:35:49 -0500

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.

EDUCAUSE2006 Podcast: Ensure IT Security

Carie417 — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:27:26 -0500

In this 35-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Marina Arseniev, Josh Drummon, and Katya Sadovsky in a session entitled Ensure IT's Quality, Ensure IT's Security, or Throw it Out! They demonstrate and explain common Web application hacks such as URL rewriting, impersonation, SQL injection, and defense techniques and countermeasures that you can implement today.