The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
He was one of the first computer scientists to dissect the game-changing worm that hit the Internet 25 years ago and took down thousands of computers. He’s also credited for defining software forensics and shaping other security technologies. But Eugene “Spaf” Spafford says security still isn’t taken seriously enough today.
To mark his induction into the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame, Purdue University Computer Science Professor Eugene Spafford offers insights on key challenges, including overcoming senior executives’ misperceptions about key issues.
2014 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS) sponsored by NSA April 8-9, 2014, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Eugene Spafford, executive director of the CERIAS institute at Purdue University and an officer of the ACM, cautioned me against reaching simplistic ethical judgments. He said if a person is hacking computers and stealing messages to prevent a terrorist attack, they’re not necessarily in violation of the society’s code, which allows for “varying interpretations.”
