Lecture 7

Using information technology to attack – or to amplify attacks on – various elements of the nation’s critical infrastructure

Speakers

Ed Lazowska, UW: Assessing Cyber-Vulnerabilities: PITAC and Beyond Phil Venables, CISO, Goldman Sachs: The Resilient Enterprise: Convergence of Security, Compliance, Redundancy and Risky Kirk Bailey, ex-CISO, City of Seattle: Cyber-attacks and cyber-defense in the City of Seattle Ernie Hayden, CISO, Port of Seattle: Cyber-attacks and cyber-defense at the Port of Seattle

Readings

• Information Technology for Counterterrorism. Computer Science & Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, 2003. Read the Executive Summary, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 4.
• Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization. President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, 2005.
• Washington Post articles on cyber terrorism, August 2005.
• New York Times article, “[1] The Rise of the Digital Thugs,” August 2005.
• Time article, “The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies,” September 2005.
• CIO Magazine article, “The Sky Really Is Falling,” October 2005.

Discussion

Participate in the wiki-discussion.

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