The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue, sees issues that often aren’t discussed in cloud computing conversations. “Too often, organizations [are] told that moving things to the cloud will be safer and cheaper, and cheaper as we know is always what tends to dominate these conversations and lead to new vulnerabilities,” Spafford says.
(CNN) The Pentagon’s claims in a new report that China is trying to extract sensitive information from U.S. government computers has put cyber security issues back in the media spotlight. But how serious is the threat to U.S. interests? How can America respond? And what other issues should be attracting policymakers’ attention? Cyber security expert Eugene Spafford, a professor of computer sciences at Purdue University and former member of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, will be taking questions from GPS readers.
