Next CS Seminar to address ‘new world of computer security’

Next CS Seminar to address ‘new world of computer security’

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Join us Thursday, April 21 for CS Seminar: Adversarial Testing of Protocol Implementations, the third discussion in our Computer Science Seminar Series!

Computer and network security is a topic that generates frequent worry and conversation. For Cristina Nita-​​Rotaru, a new pro­fessor in Northeastern’s Col­lege of Com­puter and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence, it’s a topic she’s deeply familiar with after 17 years researching how to keep infor­ma­tion both acces­sible and safe.

“There’s a story we tell stu­dents when teaching secu­rity. You take a com­puter, and you lock it in a safe. You have a secure system. But what good is it? To be useful, com­puters must interact with each other through net­work pro­to­cols, which opens the door for attacks. So you have to weigh and mea­sure trade­offs.” – Read more about Cristina Nita-Rotaru at news@Northeastern: The brave new world of computer security

In our next Computer Science Seminar on April 21, Cristina will discuss one of the most difficult problems in protocol design and implementation is to ensure that implementations of network protocols and distributed services are compliant with their specifications and not vulnerable to attacks. Learn more and RSVP to join the discussion!

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