Easy Email Encryption
In this IEEE Security & Privacy article, Steven M. Bellovin explains that with a little work and help from the five biggest Internet companies, we can have secure email.
Cybersecurity
IEEE Spectrum Tech Talk: The Security Challenges of Online Voting Have Not Gone Away
Online voting is sometimes heralded as a solution to all our election headaches. Proponents claim it eliminates hassle, provides better verification for voters and auditors, and may even increase voter…
Supporting the Diversity Life Cycle: A Conversation with Terry Benzel
The GREPSEC workshop was launched in 2013 with the goal of encouraging female and underrepresented minority graduate students to participate in top security conferences. Here, Terry Benzel, Research Director and…
The Institute: The Biggest Security Issues With Banking Often Involve Human Error
Do you have your passwords written down on sticky notes or, worse, did you email them to yourself? If so, you’re costing security experts, like IEEE Member Jungwoo Ryoo, a…
The Institute: IEEE Cybersecurity’s Try-CybSI
IEEE Cybersecurity Project a Weapon Against Cyberattacks. Try-CybSI lets practitioners experiment to learn hackers’ methods and devise defense strategies. The Institute recently discussed the project. Read more at their site.
Design Best Practices for an Authentication System
The IEEE Center for Secure Design (CSD) is part of a cybersecurity initiative launched by IEEE Computer Society. The Center provides guidance on a variety of cybersecurity-related topics. Here, we…
ERP Security and Technical Debt with Saša Zdjelar, Part II
Saša Zdjelar is Software Security Group (SSG) Supervisor and Software Security Design Lead at ExxonMobil Corporation. In the first installment of this two-part interview, Zdjelar discussed the vulnerabilities of Enterprise…
ERP Security and Technical Debt with Saša Zdjelar
Saša Zdjelar is Software Security Group (SSG) Supervisor and Software Security Design Lead at ExxonMobil Corporation. In the first installment of this two-part interview, he discusses the challenges of securing…
Try-CybSI Updates from Justin Yang
Baijian “Justin” Yang is leading the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative’s Try-CybSI project. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University. Question: What is the…
IEEE SecDev 2016: Security Innovation in Design and Development
Michael Hicks, professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland in College Park, talks about the new conference from the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative. The following post was originally posted on his…