SECReT student seminars 2010
- Crime and the decriminalisation of cannabis
- The security research agenda at a global bank
- What is crime science?
- Case study: HSBC-SAS real time global fraud analysis
- Interagency cooperation across the intelligence community
- The dark side of creativity
- The new national police improvement strategy
- Statistics and crime
- Cybersecurity futures
- The work of the FBI lab
- Developing investigative leads through the analysis and interpretation of microscopic trace evidence
- dstl and crime science
- Advances in fingerprint identification
- How cities can be designed to resist infectious diseases
- The UK’s International Counter-Terrorism Strategy
- Exploring the limits of the justice system in reducing harm
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Cybersecurity futures
Publication date: Mar 7, 2011 11:02:16 AM
Start:
Jul 16, 2010 11:00:00 AM
End:
Jul 16, 2010 12:11:00 PM
Location: Brook House
Speaker: Professor Fred Chang, Director, Centre for Information Assurance and Security, University of Texas, Austin
Audience: SECReT students
Professor Fred Chang, Associate Dean for Information Technology in the College of Natural Sciences, Director of the Center for Information Assurance and Security, and former Director of Research at the National Security Agency came to UCL SECReT to talk about future challenges in cybersecurity. Dr. Chang used his extensive experience as a member of the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency (the Obama Administration) to talk about the swiftly evolving challenges posed by increasingly organised and highly technical cybercriminals focusing on online fraud, identity theft and denial of service attacks.
He demonstrated to SECReT students how even a computer apparently ‘secured’ by anti-virus safeguards is almost defenceless against determined and technically armed attackers, and how the human dimension can render any safeguards completely useless. Dr Chang concluded by suggesting that human behaviour scientists will have to work to a much greater extent with designers of computer systems, softwares and networks to try and achieve a better response to sophisticated cyber-criminal attacks.
