SecurityAs networked computing devices become both more pervasive and more central to infrastructure and daily life, the potential for harm to result from security failures is increasing rapidly. Already, successful attacks have crippled large networks and exposed personal and financial information to misuse. But networks are beginning to connect far more than computers and cell phones; automobiles, building materials, and home appliances are getting ready to go online. At the same time, adversaries have become highly skilled, efficiently organized, and motivated by financial or even political gain. This dynamic of greater connectivity, escalating reliance on networked systems, and the gains to be made from attacking these systems has made security a critical technical and policy issue. In particular, making systems more secure can put other values — privacy and functionality, for example — at risk. With funding from the NSF-funded Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies (TRUST) and from the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), the Samuelson Clinic is investigating how technology and policy interact in the realms of research, the government, and the marketplace. |
