Critical Cybersecurity Questions and Concerns: A National Laboratory Perspective
Securing cyberspace requires contributions from a broad group of
practitioners. The National Laboratories are in a middle ground between
the private sector and academia: they take a longer-term view than the
private sector while focusing on more applied problems than academia.
One such problem relates to the "smart grid," a network for allowing
more fine-grained regulation of the power grid to meet demands,
including that of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. While electric
vehicles would require significantly more power plants to be built on
the current power grid, a recent Oak Ridge study showed that the smart
grid would enable around 80% of the US population to use electric
vehicles without requiring new power plant build-out. While the smart
grid holds potential for consumers and utilities, it creates new avenues
for cyber attacks. In this talk, I will discuss some of these concerns
as well as other cyber security challenges that we have identified.
BIO:
Craig Shue is a Cyber Security Research Scientist in the Cyberspace
Sciences and Information Intelligence Research (CSIIR) group at the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory. He received his MS and PhD in Computer
Science from Indiana University in 2006 and 2009, respectively. His
research focuses on computer networks and their security. Dr. Shue's
past work includes efforts to prevent IP address spoofing, analyzing
open Web redirects, and developing new Internet architectures. He is
currently examining approaches to combat the insider threat and social
engineering attacks, such as phishing.
SEMINAR LOCATIONS:
IUB:Dr. Shue will be speaking from Room 335 in the Law Building on the
Bloomington campus.
The Law Building is located at the corner of Third Street and Indiana
Avenue.
(IUB campus map: http://www.iub.edu/~iubmap/) IUPUI:Via Video-conference -- this talk will be streamed to Room IT414 of the
Informatics & Communications Technologies Complex (ICTC). ICTC is
located at the corner of West Street and Michigan Avenue. (Please go to
the main lobby of IT to gain access to Room IT414 -- this is a secure
building.)
IUPUI campus map: http://www.iupui.edu/misc/campusmap.htm)
The Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research thanks the Indiana
University Pervasive Technology Institute for their support of the
Center and this seminar series.