I didn't see anyone else pipe up; so I'll take a shot at a recap, but don't expect Shakespeare! Speaker:Tom Donahue Topic: A global perspective on Cyber Threats His Background --MIT EE degree Phd and Masters, UVA Physics degree --17 years with the CIA --Edited the President's daily brief --3 years in cyber security Overview --Looks at his job as explaining the chess game --Conveys to his customers (i.e. the Whitehouse) the layout and rules of the board --#1 Threat to cyber security is the physical threat against key data centers and people --#1 growth area for cyber security is organized crime --Least important is the individual black hat hacker (except for supplying tools) Key Players --Russia -Long history of capabilities and use (embassy monitoring, etc) -Friends now? -Hotspots for credit card theft, identity theft --China -Movement to 'asymmetric warfare' -Taiwan is the key pawn -Will gain capabilities in 5-10 years (manufacturing, design of key technologies moving there) --Others -Japan is not a cyber threat -Iraq has had an active computer intrusion program since early 90s --Organized crime -Entertainment and/or money are key people motivators -Organized crime knows this -OC is everywhere money is to be made -Large amounts of money=large amounts of security, small money=small security and more opportunity --Hackers -Most hacker attacks staged in the US -Most attacks per capita internet user are from Kuwait and Iran -Hackers main contribution is in tool generation, revision --Terrorists -Using cyber security in organization (encryption, anonymizers, etc) -Focus of attacks is on the physical, not the cyber -Sympathizers however may participate via cyber attacks -Focus on efforts to become insiders to gain access (access is everything!) Predictions --Supply chain attacks will increase -evil chips, code, etc -OK to outsource manufacturing, but design is a worry --In for a long period of pain re:cyber attacks -relatively low cost of entry -increasingly everything is connected, vulnerable Parting words --Protect your physical perimeter --Beware insiders! That's about as good as I can do this late at night! <disclaimer> I make no claims as to the accuracy of my recap, if someone remembers differently please feel free to correct me. </disclaimer> Take care, Jeff. -----Original Message----- From: owner-crime@private [mailto:owner-crime@private]On Behalf Of Michael Rasmussen Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:03 PM To: crime@private Subject: RE: CRIME Great presentation!! Please do recap for those of us who had to <gasp> work </gasp> today. 4 fires out, uncounted more to deal with. -- Michael Rasmussen - Network Engineer, Columbia Management voice: 971-925-6723 cell: 503-807-1447 rasmussm@private < mailto:rasmussm@private <mailto:rasmussm@private> > http://www.columbiafunds.com <http://www.columbiafunds.com/>
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