The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
(Forbes) Last month Heckman, a researcher for the non-profit IT research corporation MITRE, gave a talk with fellow MITRE researcher Frank Stech at Purdue’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security and described a cyber war game scenario MITRE played out internally in which she and Stech tried an unorthodox defensive strategy: Instead of trying to purge a Red Team of hackers from a Blue Team’s network they were defending, Heckman and Stech let the attackers linger inside, watched them, and fed them confusing misinformation. The result: despite the Blue Team’s network being deeply compromised by the Red Team’s hackers, Blue managed to trick Red into making the wrong moves and losing the game.
The 14th Annual Information Security Symposium is underway.
Some people say the U.S. faces a cybersecurity staffing shortage. Renowned computer science professor Eugene Spafford disagrees. He discusses what he sees as the real shortage and what we can do about it.
