Over the past two years there has been a steady drumbeat of alarmist rhetoric coming out of Washington about potential catastrophic cyber threats. For example, at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last year, Chairman Carl Levin said that “cyberweapons and cyberattacks potentially can...

A stronger legal and regulatory environment, high profile privacy failures, and increasing public concerns build the case for enterprises to take privacy seriously. For those new to the subject, this paper describes the harms that privacy failures can lead to, and the reasons why privacy issues...

Hackers have been online since a Cornell graduate student infected MIT’s burgeoning network with the first Internet worm on November 2, 1988. But recently cyber attacks on states have proliferated both in numbers and severity. The best-known recent example of such a cyber attack was on April...

The electric industry is experiencing notable changes with the implementation of communication and automation technology, many of which are part of the smart grid movement. Similar to other critical infrastructure industries such as banking, transportation and the cross sector critical...

The paper deals with cyber defense architecture and its possible implementation for a campus-wide network. It gives an extensive case study to secure the critical online information from internal and external malicious attacks. Under this case study, different security measures and their usage...

Cyber security is a very controversial subject that probably has started even the early days of the Internet. Yet strategies and dedication by entities to adopt an effective cyber security appears to be inadequate to a certain degree. What anybody with terror purpose, through the Internet, can...

In the United States, identity theft resulted in corporate and consumer losses of $56 billion dollars in 2005, with up to 35 percent of known identity thefts caused by corporate data breaches. Many states have responded by adopting “data breach disclosure laws” that require firms to notify...

Well documented breaches have heightened the public's and regulatory agencies' concerns about how well companies are securing consumer-specific information. Despite some initial advances, sensitive information is still commonly stolen. Internal threat issues and the fact that extended...

Research being conducted by computer scientists offers great promise in improving cybersecurity threats in the short and long term. Progress in cybersecurity research, however, is beset by a lack of access to data from communications networks. Legally and informally protected individual privacy...

Hackers account for enormous costs associated with computer intrusion in a world increasingly reliant on computer and Internet-based technologies. Within the hacker community, there are “good” hackers called white hat hackers and “bad” hackers called black hat hackers. Essentially, one...