Threat Assessment: The New Normal

Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.Vice Chancellor and CIO

Board of Regents

Agenda• Emerging Threats

• Emerging Opportunities

• Business Impact

3,300 mile Private CloudVirtual Library Software Store

Enterprise Security and ePrivacy

Distance Education Learning Management

Enterprise Financials Enterprise BI

Library OperationsStudent Information

Collaboration

PREMISE 1: GROWING THREAT

Emerging Threats(on a scale of 1 to 10)

10 United States, United Kingdom, Russia

11 China

3 Iran

Can You Defend Against 100,000 Professionally

Trained Hackers?

Consider Mandiant Report on AG1

• Believed to be People Liberation Army Unit 61398.

• State sponsored, state funded, state secret.

• Since 2006, they have compromised 141 companies spanning 20 major industries.

• Maintained access for an average of 356 days. Longest measured access was 1,764 days.

Focus on Nation States

If a nation state wants to break into your system,

will they?

What to Do?

Security Inciden

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Future?

PREMISE 2: WHAT IS THE TRUTH?

First Rule of the InternetAgreement does not scale

Implications

• Rootkits for “truth”

• Denial of truth attacks

• Zombie armies of disinformation?

Quiz

• Question: What happens if you Google a system error?

• Answer: Nation states run a site that provides guidance on answering a system error while attacking your computer.

PREMISE 3: TIS THE BEST OF TIMES AND THE WORST OF TIMES

Normal Distribution Curve

Effect of the WWW on the Normal Curve of Behavior?

It is the best of times, for morons and geniuses alike.

How are Humans Going to Become Extinct?

• Pandemic?

• Global Warming?

• Asteroids?

• Nuclear War?

• Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal and former president of the Royal Society, is backing plans for a Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

• "This is the first century in the world's history when the biggest threat is from humanity," says Lord Rees.

Quick Recap

We live in a world of growing threats where a battle for the truth rages conducted by morons and geniuses alike, operating from safe havens created by a flattening of the norms of human behavior which threaten the very existence of mankind…. [run-on but

very depressing sentence continues]

Emerging OpportunitiesWell, we have the geniuses….

6.8 billion people….

5.1 own cell phones….

4.1 own toothbrushes….

Security Busines

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Real-Time

LocationSocial

Privacy

Global

Consumerization

Cloud

Big Data

Response as important as Prevention

Get AgileGet Big

Think Consumerization

Build MobileFirstThink Social

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Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.Vice Chancellor and CIO

Board of Regents