P.S.R. 2015 || Academia, Industry and Security

At Privacy. Security. Risk. 2015, the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science’s Jean Yang discussed how start-ups can foster privacy and security by employing the research initiatives so prevalent in academia to update the out-of-date privacy standards in the field. “This talk is about how we can better use what we already know about cybersecurity,” she said. “In academia, there are many ideas that comfort me. There are all these research ideas that promise to secure our software…but the curious thing, in industry, the state of the art is firewalls. In this talk, I invite you to think with me about how we can get research ideas to make their way more into practice.”

[@gardnerjp1]

Nailed it regarding "Industry Practice" by depending on firewalls. Industry discounts the insider threat because they feel they are safe inside their perimeter. Should something go wrong cosmetically than they will allocate manpower/resources to address the issue. Otherwise it's "heads down" concentrate on the task at hand. Which for the Blackhats is fantastic. They love nothing better than a CIO with a Superman complex.

[@SanjivaPrasad]

I'm puzzled by the comment that (language-based) security was not a concern in the '70s. Denning (and Denning) is PL Security work from the mid-1970s. Brilliant work, that is (still) the basis for all information flow security work.

[@googleuser-hy5ko]

amazing...

[@gorgeous797]

why is she doing weird things with her head and face , also shaking her head a lot...

[@zz.7573]

i think those are called mannerisms