Cybersecurity and Cyberwar - Allan Friedman

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Résumé :

• 1. Why cyberspace is wonderful... and complicated
• ? What is cyberspace?
• ? Why do people talk about the difference of a networked world?
• ? How does the Internet actually work?
• ? Who owns this thing?
• ? Wait... You mean no one runs the internet?
• ? What can governments do online? What are the limits of state power?
• ? Just how dependent are we on cyberspace?
• 2. Security and Insecurity Online
• ? What do we mean by a secure system?
• ? What is the difference between an attack on a network and an attack on a system?
• ? How does anti-virus software work?
• ? How do you defend a network?
• ? Why is anonymity a problem online? Why is it relatively easy to act without accountability?
• ? How can you authenticate some one to be sure they are who they say they are?
• ? How do we keep data secure in cyberspace?
• 3. Threats and Bad Actors
• o Differentiating threats
• o Value at risk
• ? What are the bad guys after? What can you really do with a computer?
• ? What's the worst you can do? Can a hacker really turn off the power grid?
• o Different motivations of attackers
• o Different types of attacks
• o What is Cyber Terrorism, actually?
• ? What does cyberwarfare mean?
• ? How are countries militarizing cyberspace? Why?
• ? So if we just built better systems, could we have a secure internet?
• 4. Case Studies / Examples of attacks
• o Aurora / Google {phishing, attribution}
• o Stuxnet {Critical infrastructure, intelligence}
• o Wikileaks data breach and fallout {data protection, DoS}
• o Israel-Syria Air Defense {Cyber-Kinetic Crossover, cyberwar}
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• 5. Why securing cyberspace is hard
• ? What are some mechanisms that enable us to trust systems or data?
• ? What is the difference between espionage and exploitation?
• ? Why not just write better software?
• ? Why can't network operators detect bad behavior?
• ? Why security through obscurity doesn't work
• ? How do we know what has happened after a cyber incident?
• ? How does the rise in cloud computing change the dynamics of cyber security?
• ? What makes mobile computing different?
• ? If everyone's systems are vulnerable, can't defenders just interrupt the attacker's systems?
• ? Why is it so hard to know who the attackers are?
• ? Why does attribution matter?
• ? How do we measure a cyber risk?
• ? Why aren't users able to protect themselves?
• ? Don't vendors and service providers have enough incentives to provide good security?
• ? Why aren't companies investing enough to protect themselves?
• 6. International Dimensions
• ? What changes when cyber problems cross international borders?
• ? How do countries differ in their approach to cyberspace?
• ? Who has the biggest cyber armies?
• ? What constitutes an act of war?
• ? How does law enforcement deal with international boundaries?
• ? What are existing international organizations currently doing?
• ? What international treaties are in place?
• ? Why don't the classic models of military deterrence work for cyberspace?
• ? What are the obstacles to international cooperation to resolve cybersecurity issues?
• 7.The path forward to a more secure cyberspace
• ? It sounds like every aspect of modern life is vulnerable. Are things really that bad?
• ? Why can't we just re-built the technology to prevent bad behavior?
• ? Can we impose accountability through national control of cyberspac...

  Biographie:
  Peter W. Singer is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution. Allan Friedman is a Fellow in Governance Studies and Research Director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution....

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  Peter W. Singer is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution. Allan Friedman is a Fellow in Governance Studies and Research Director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution....