4. Curtis A. Carver Jr. “Windows of Opportunity in Hallways of Distractions: the race between threats, security, and collective” Atlanta, GA. June 6, 2013. Argoyle Chief Information Officer Leadership Forum. Keynote Speaker
Windows of Opportunity in Hallways of Distractions: the race between threats, security, and collective
1. Windows of Opportunity in
Hallways of Distractions:
the race between threats,
security, and
collective intelligence
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.
Vice Chancellor and CIO
Board of Regents
5. Emerging Threats
(on a scale of 1 to 10)
10 United States,
United Kingdom,
Russia
7 China
3 Iran
6. Can You Defend Against
100,000 Professionally
Trained Hackers?
7. 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.
8. Focus on Nation States
If a nation state wants
to break into your system,
will they?
13. 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.
17. It is the best of times,
for morons and geniuses alike.
18. 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.
19. 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]