Northrop Grumman and Academia Cite Progress in Tackling Nation’s Most Pressing Cybersecurity Threats

WASHINGTON, June 1, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and three of the nation’s leading cybersecurity research universities, Carnegie Mellon University, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Purdue University, announced today the progress they have made in developing solutions for pressing cybersecurity threats during a briefing at the National Press Club.

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Eugene Spafford, a security expert and professor at Purdue University, told a House subcommittee last week that computer security experts had been aware for months that the PlayStation’s Web servers were outdated and that the company’s network lacked sufficient security — which he said Sony must have also known. But Professor Spafford does not see any new legislation in the near future that would force companies to take security more seriously. “Over the last five years there have been several bills that have been introduced through committees but never made it all the way through Congress,” he said in an interview. “Companies tend to fight the bills, saying it would be too expensive or onerous to implement better security.”

Researchers, Students Receive Awards at the 2011 CERIAS Symposium

CERIAS 2011 Symposium

The symposium is over.

Thank you to all those who attended and watched the sessions online!

http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/symposium2011

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Eugene Spafford tells Federal News Radio that, typically, it’s impossible to tell how long a breach has been going on.

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“Having email addresses by itself is not much of a threat: people give them out all the time, and spammers can and do guess them easily,” said Eugene Spafford, executive director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Purdue University.

“It is more an issue if you can pair addresses with places of employment, such as government agencies,” he added. “Then it becomes possible to collect further information, and perhaps get a toehold into Google, Bing or other information sources.”