InfoCoBuild

Living in a Cyber-Enabled World

Cybersecurity. The current approach to cybersecurity is flawed. Effort is spent trying to "educate" users not to click on links in emails or to open attachments, when this is exactly how those features were designed to be used. Similarly, users are expected to take responsibility for what their computers are doing, but every software product they use demands the right to go online, upload usage data and download updates. So how would you know that you have become part of a botnet? We need a new approach to cybersecurity.

An independent consultant systems engineer and non-executive director, Professor Martyn Thomas is an internationally recognised expert in safety-critical or security-critical, software intensive systems, software engineering, and cybersecurity. (from gresham.ac.uk)

05. Cybersecurity


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01. Should We Trust Computers?
02. A Very Brief History of Computing, 1948-2015
03. How Can Software Be So Hard?
04. Computers, People and the Real World
05. Cybersecurity
06. Big Data: The Broken Promise of Anonymisation
07. Are You the Customer or the Product?
08. Safety-Critical Systems
09. The Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance
10. What Really Happened in Y2K?
11. Making Software 'Correct by Construction'
12. Artificial Intelligence