Speaker:   Paul Boin, Principal Cyber Security Engineer, MITRE Corporation

Time:       5:30pm-6:00pm Pizza

                 6:00pm-7:00pm Presentation

Where:    CIS Conference Room, YR 459

Title:      Perils of Encryption

Abstract

Our online world has plunged headfirst into reliance on encryption, but there are subtle and occasionally disastrous consequences.  These consequences can include lack of visibility to most inspection devices, lost keys resulting in data loss, bad assumptions about the actual risk to data, and unexpected leaks when the data is not as protected as intended.  This talk reviews some useful cases and lays out guidelines for ensuring that your cryptographic efforts safely meet requirements.

The Cybersecurity seminars at Towson are jointly sponsored by the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and the National Science Foundation’s CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program.