DEALING WITH INSECURITY ISSUES IN A CYBER WORLD

Cyber security is hard, or at least balanced cyber security is. Perfect cyber security: turn off the computer. Unfortunately, that’s not very useful. Everyone agrees that realistic cyber security is a growing problem but no one agrees on how to effectively solve it. Some would argue it’s a technology problem that requires technological solutions. Others would say it’s a failure of process and is best solved with improved processes. And, unfortunately, a growing set of users are rapidly resigning themselves to a perceived choice of either using computing insecurely and productively, or using a secure computing environment that is often counterproductive, generally out of date, and always difficult to use.  With new technology trends like cloud computing on the horizon, there are very important questions about how cyber security is going to play. Is security going to overly constrain the productivity of these highly useful but likely very dangerous technologies? Or is there hope that cyber security will find the solutions within these technologies without perceived constraint? Looking forward, can we find that balance of security and usability in our computing environments? A diverse panel of cyber experts with different viewpoints will consider the current state of cyber security and its future impact on emergent technologies, user need and perception.