MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2016



Cybersecurity: People, Process and Technology

Everardo Ruiz SM '00, Intellectual Ventures, COL. Robert Banks

Jan/26 Tue 01:00PM-03:00PM E62-250

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required

Cybersecurity continues a shift from Tolerance and Survivability tools towards Moving Target Defenses. The increasing rate of cyber-attacks and their impacts on U.S. Company’s underscore several Cybersecurity Myths. Cyber-defense strategy needs new Social Norms, similar to Europe’s approach for the Plague, Slavery and Piracy that globally deter today’s Malware, Botnets and Espionage. Should we move beyond compliance, monitoring and industry partnership of sharing threat information? Can cyber policies address today’s challenges of misaligned incentives, information asymmetries and externalities and what can businesses do till then? Is this simply a technology discussion? As malware attack numbers and the cost and time-to-fix all explode, it’s clear that cyber-attack advances have outpaced Social Norms and current policy. The presentation is based on several decades of industry, telecom and government perspectives.


Everardo Ruiz SM '00 and COL. (Ret.) Robert Banks will lead this discussion.

Register for this free event.

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU