Cyberspace and the Intersection of Security:
New Challenges for Corporate Security, Law Enforcement,
and our
Privacy
In cyberspace, the intersection of security, privacy, access, and Big Data continues to create new challenges for corporate security, law enforcement, privacy, and safety. The tradeoffs are many, the implications subtle. The potential for various forms of mayhem is high.
Public discourse on these topics has more often than not failed to take into account past experience with similar hazards; ignoring the constraints on information gathering and behavior from before the Information Age. Often, seemingly obvious solutions to problems have subtle hazards and dangers, and have side effects worse than the original disease. SPAM filtering and targeted marketing seem good ideas, until an important message gets mis-routed or an intimate personal detail is laid bare before the world.
Approximations are widely used in marketing, surveillance, monitoring, and protection. tools often represent the only way in which applications and support networks can be monitored and protected. The technologies and their internal approximations are highly useful, but are often employed with a focus on their strengths, with a lesser degree of attention paid to their limits and robustness.
Approximations however, are not reality. Understanding the limits of approximations is critical to their safe use. Conclusions beyond the scope or validity of the approximation are dangerous to all involved parties. While active responses to perceived attacks are the most serious concern, the problem is not limited to cyberspace. A miscued marketing campaign can have severe consequences. Even seemingly innocuous defensive measures can have a severe impact on an organization and its customers and partners.
Join us to explore these issues and consequences.
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