MIT Launches Three-pronged Effort To Thwart Cyber Attacks

alphadogg writes MIT is attacking cybersecurity from three angles: technical, regulatory and managerial through three programs and in partnership with major corporations. The initiatives include participants from across several MIT schools as well as from outside the university with a goal of making it harder for attackers to succeed in efforts to break into networks, disrupt them, and steal and destroy data. The technical challenge will be met by the school's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in cooperation with a group of industry partners – BAE Systems, BBVA, Boeing and Raytheon – that will meet periodically to be briefed about ongoing research."

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Re:The solution being totally obvious ..

[CaptainDork]

I've been at this shit since Moby Dick was a minnow.

I remember when there was no local area network -- way before the Internet.

Malicious programs got circulated by 5 1/4" floppies via MSDOS.

That's when the problem started and that's how far back we have to go.

I can foresee some improvement if we move toward the dumb terminal/mainframe architecture by way of sand-boxed apps that can be pulled from a centralized location if they go rogue.

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Steve Wozniak were part of the Digital Revolution where they wanted to decentralize data and put computers in the hands of the people.

Now it looks like we need a backlash.