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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The solution being totally obvious ..

[DougPaulson]

“How to keep critical infrastructure safe from potentially life-threatening attacks”

The solution being to not download and run other peoples code on your 'computer', not connect your critical infrastructure to the Internet and to ask the NSA/QCHQ to stop devising methods to dilute security on the Internet.

Re:The solution being totally obvious ..

[CaptainDork]

Yes. Those listed are not serious except to waste money on funding.

Any real attempts to "thwart" attacks from the outside would START with identifying the external actors.

That's:

1.) Our government
2.) Their government
3.) Big business
4.) Organized crime
5.) Cyber gangs
6.) Kiddies

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.

The program is funded by $15 million...

[turkeydance]

Silly security rabbit. Program is for funding.

true intentions

[Gravis Zero]

let's be clear here, the people these corporations work are not looking to thwart cyber attacks, they are looking to thwart cyber attacks against themselves. the rest of us will still be considered their cannon fodder.