"Information Security War Room" at USENIX Security

Sergey Bratus and Felix 'FX' Lindner delivered a joint invited talk at this year's USENIX Security Conference. This premier conference brings together attendees from academia, industry, and government.

The talk entitled "Information Security War Room" examined the state of IT security, the implications of the ongoing computer insecurity epidemic for national security and "cyberwarfare", the current misguided attempts of various governments to regulate research into computer attacks, and the strategic options the computer security community has left to revert the current trend of ubiquitous insecurity, and to make practical progress towards computers we could finally trust.

The talk received considerable attention; slides posted online got over 30,000 download requests to date.

Felix and Sergey also co-chaired the 8th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies, at which a range of research projects was presented, from the Internet routing backbone and US highway traffic control infrastructure to security concerns in mobile phones and embedded devices such as computer mice, thumb drives, and other peripheral devices.