Reviewing Changes in the Computer Security Threat Environment
An explanation of how the computer security environment and classroom have changed over the years and what instructors can do to adapt, led by author Dr. Lawrie Brown.
Lawrie Brown PhD, Honorary senior lecturer in the School of Engineering and Information Technology, UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy
Dr Lawrie Brown, co-author of Computer Security Principles and Practice, 5th edition, discusses how the computer security environment - and curriculum - has changed over the years. While the broad fundamentals remain fairly constant, there has been a change in the targets of security compromises, from a focus on malware to a much greater emphasis on attacks involving people, including social engineering attacks. He will briefly review a few notable recent attacks in the light of these issues.
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About the speaker
Lawrie Brown, PhD
Honorary senior lecturer, School of Engineering and Information Technology
UNSW Canberra
Dr. Lawrie Brown is a honorary senior lecturer in the School of Engineering and Information Technology at UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, following his retirement in 2016. His research interests include communications and computer systems security, safe mobile code execution, and cryptography. His current research interests concern the use of Proxy Certificates for Client Authentication, which he started during his 2010 sabbatical to the the Dept of Telematics at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, Norway, as a NordSecMob scholar with support from the European Commission under the Erasmus Mundus program. He has previously worked on the design and implementation of private key block ciphers, in particular the LOKI family of encryption algorithms; and on the design of safe mobile code environments using the functional language Erlang.