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1 The Future of Cyber Security Prof. Ravi Sandhu Executive Director February 2010 [email protected] www.profsandhu.com www.ics.utsa.edu © Ravi Sandhu 1 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! Institute for Cyber Security

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The Future of Cyber Security

Prof. Ravi SandhuExecutive Director

February 2010

[email protected] www.profsandhu.com

www.ics.utsa.edu

© Ravi Sandhu 1World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact!

Institute for Cyber Security

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Good News, Bad News

Cyber security profession will not disappear

Cyber security will never be solved

© Ravi Sandhu 2World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact!

Old attacks

New attacks

Old technologies New technologies

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Productivity-Security

Number 1 cyber-centric nationNumber 1 cyber-vulnerable nation

© Ravi Sandhu 3World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact!

Productivity Security

Let’s build itCash out the benefitsNext generation can secure it

Let’s not build itLet’s bake in super-security tomake it unusable/unaffordableLet’s sell unproven solutions

There is a middle groundWe don’t know how to predictably find it

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Cyber and Cyber Security

We need cyber to make the 21st century another American century

© Ravi Sandhu 4World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact!

Net-centric military Intelligence Smart grid Electronic health records and healthcare Smart traffic control: air, roads etcetera

We need smarter cyber security to make this happen