Threat Assessment: The New Normal Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr. Vice Chancellor and CIO Board of Regents
Threat Assessment: The New Normal
Jan 25, 2015
Providing anywhere, anytime access to the network for everyone on campus is the new normal, but it comes with a new generation of security threats. We’ll address emerging security issues related to the wireless network, including email and web access. We’ll also discuss tactics and policies that CIOs can adopt to assess and address the threats to their networks.
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Threat Assessment: The New Normal
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.Vice Chancellor and CIO
Board of Regents
Agenda• Emerging Threats
• Emerging Opportunities
• Business Impact
3,300 mile Private CloudVirtual Library Software Store
Enterprise Security and ePrivacy
Distance Education Learning Management
Enterprise Financials Enterprise BI
Library OperationsStudent Information
Collaboration
PREMISE 1: GROWING THREAT
Emerging Threats(on a scale of 1 to 10)
10 United States, United Kingdom, Russia
11 China
3 Iran
Can You Defend Against 100,000 Professionally
Trained Hackers?
Consider Mandiant Report on AG1
• Believed to be People Liberation Army Unit 61398.
• State sponsored, state funded, state secret.
• Since 2006, they have compromised 141 companies spanning 20 major industries.
• Maintained access for an average of 356 days. Longest measured access was 1,764 days.
Focus on Nation States
If a nation state wants to break into your system,
will they?
What to Do?
Security Inciden
tsSecurity Inciden
ts
Future?
PREMISE 2: WHAT IS THE TRUTH?
First Rule of the InternetAgreement does not scale
Implications
• Rootkits for “truth”
• Denial of truth attacks
• Zombie armies of disinformation?
Quiz
• Question: What happens if you Google a system error?
• Answer: Nation states run a site that provides guidance on answering a system error while attacking your computer.
PREMISE 3: TIS THE BEST OF TIMES AND THE WORST OF TIMES
Normal Distribution Curve
Effect of the WWW on the Normal Curve of Behavior?
It is the best of times, for morons and geniuses alike.
How are Humans Going to Become Extinct?
• Pandemic?
• Global Warming?
• Asteroids?
• Nuclear War?
• Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal and former president of the Royal Society, is backing plans for a Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
• "This is the first century in the world's history when the biggest threat is from humanity," says Lord Rees.
Quick Recap
We live in a world of growing threats where a battle for the truth rages conducted by morons and geniuses alike, operating from safe havens created by a flattening of the norms of human behavior which threaten the very existence of mankind…. [run-on but
very depressing sentence continues]
Emerging OpportunitiesWell, we have the geniuses….
6.8 billion people….
5.1 own cell phones….
4.1 own toothbrushes….
Security Busines
s Intel
Real-Time
LocationSocial
Privacy
Global
Consumerization
Cloud
Big Data
Response as important as Prevention
Get AgileGet Big
Think Consumerization
Build MobileFirstThink Social
Questions, Comments, a Conversation
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.Vice Chancellor and CIO
Board of Regents
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