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EDUCAUSE Live! January 4, 2008 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour What Price Insularity? Reflections About Computer Security FailingsSpecial Guest
Fred B. Schneider is a professor at Cornell University’s Department of Computer Science and chief scientist of TRUST, the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology, an NSF Science and Technology Center and a collaboration of UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Stanford, and Vanderbilt. Schneider is author of the graduate text On Concurrent Programming and is coauthor of the undergraduate text A Logical Approach to Discrete Math. He chaired the National Research Council’s study committee on information systems’ trustworthiness and edited its final report, Trust in Cyberspace. Comanaging editor of Springer-Verlag’s texts and monographs in computer science, Schneider is also associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Security and Privacy and serves on several other journal editorial boards. A member of industrial technical advisory boards for FAST Search and Transfer and for Fortify Software, he chairs Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board. Schneider serves on the National Research Council’s CSTB, the NIST Information Security and Privacy Board, the CRA Board of Directors, and the CCC Council. He is a Fellow of AAAS and ACM, a senior member of IEEE, and was named professor-at-large at the University of Tromsų (Norway) in 1996. Schneider’s research concerns problems associated with making distributed and concurrent systems trustworthy. His early work was in formal methods and methodologies for concurrent programming and in protocols for fault-tolerance. More recently, his attention has turned to topics in computer security. Schneider has a BS from Cornell, an MS and PhD from Stony Brook University, and a DSc honoris causa from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. SummaryYour host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Fred Schneider, and the topic will be "What Price Insularity? Reflections About Computer Security Failings." Why is it risky for technologists to ignore the nontechnical context where their systems will be deployed? Furthermore, what is the risk when policymakers ignore the limits and potential of technology? How can we structure dialogue between technologists and policymakers to address security failings—to revisit identity theft, electronic voting machines, digital rights management, and network neutrality? Fred Schneider, editor of the National Research Council study Trust in Cyberspace and longtime researcher on what makes computer systems secure, will consider these and other questions. Related EDUCAUSE Resources
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