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Record Nr.

UNINA9910220142803321

Autore

Libicki Martin C.

Titolo

The defendeŕs dilemma : charting a course toward cybersecurity / / Martin C. Libicki, Lillian Ablon, Tim Webb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Monica, California : , : RAND Corporation, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8330-9103-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Disciplina

005.8

Soggetti

Cyberterrorism - Prevention

Computer networks - Security measures

Computer security

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One: Introduction; Organization of This Report; Chapter Two: Chief Information Security Officers Surveyed; Common Knowledge Confirmed; Reasonable Suppositions Validated; Surprises; Some Conclusions; Chapter Three: The Efficacy of Security Systems; Measures and Countermeasures to Mitigate the Likelihood of an Attack; Attackers and Defenders Often Employ the Same Tools and Techniques; Security Product Development Has Sped Up

The Shift from Signature-Only to Behavior-Based Detection Having More-Sophisticated Tools Do Not Necessarily Equate to Smaller Error Rates; Measures and Countermeasures Developed to Mitigate the Impact of an Attack; Human Element Continues to Be a Great Weakness; A Cycle of Market Offerings; Ideal Solutions Can Depend on the Size of an Organization; Some Conclusions; Chapter Four: Improving Software; When Vulnerabilities Matter; Markets for Zero-Days; In the Short Run, Vulnerability Discovery Might Worsen Matters; Can Software Become Good Enough?; A Wave of (Connected) Gadgets

Some Conclusions Chapter Five: A Heuristic Cyber security Model; Model Structure; Results; Sensitivity Analyses; Conclusions; Chapter Six: Lessons for Organizations and Public Policy; Lessons for Organizations;



Lessons for Public Policy; Some Conclusions; APPENDIXES; A. Questionnaire; B. Model Specification; C. Baseline Parameters; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Cyber security is a constant, and, by all accounts growing, challenge. This report, the second in a multi-phase study on the future of cyber security, reveals perspectives and perceptions from chief information security officers; examines the development of network defense measures-and the countermeasures that attackers create to subvert those measures; and explores the role of software vulnerabilities and inherent weaknesses.