Dorothy Denning
Dorothy Denning
Dorothy Elizabeth Denningis an American information security researcher who is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She has published four books and 140 articles. At Georgetown University, she was the Patricia and Patrick Callahan Family Professor of computer science and director of the Georgetown Institute of Information Assurance. She is now a professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School...
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Computer worms like Code Red can be used to find potential zombies and automatically install the attack software.
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Conversely, terrorists who are motivated to cause violence seem to lack the capability to cause that degree of damage in cyberspace.
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Cyber protests have emerged in a climate where computer network attacks have become a serious and growing threat.
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The tools used to launch massive denial of service assaults, for example, have advanced command and control capabilities.
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New vulnerabilities are continually uncovered, and systems are configured or used in ways that make them open to attack.
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Some companies are offering to provide key recovery services now, but we don't have any experience with such services. That's part of the problem.
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.
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We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.
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I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.
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I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.
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However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.
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I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.
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I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.
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Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.