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Cybersecurity: Survival on the Web Welcome to part two in our e-newsletter series for Carnegie Mellon Today's Special Edition: Cybersecurity.Your electrical bills. Your tax information. Your bank account. They all have one thing in common: they are probably all online. We take a look at the risks this poses and the university's work to make things safer in our article "Survival Game." [.pdf] Just 20 years ago, the Internet was a little known way of connecting data, but today, it's woven into each of our daily lives, in small and large ways. It's made paying the bills as easy as clicking the mouse, but it's also opened the door for a huge security risk. Soon after one of the first "worms" attacked the Internet in 1988, Carnegie Mellon formed the nation's first computer emergency response team. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute is just one of the many ways in which scientists here are working to keep your personal information from getting into the wrong hands online. Carnegie Mellon's CyLab — a university-wide, multidisciplinary initiative — is leading the way to find a solution. "CyLab is precisely tailored," says Pradeep Khosla, dean of the College of Engineering, founder and co-director of CyLab. "We have a group of experts who care very much about creating a deeper understanding of the issues of cybersecurity. More important, this knowledge speeds the transition from university to mainstream." To learn how Carnegie Mellon is playing a major role in keeping you safe, read the "Survival Game." [.pdf] |
Carnegie Cadets Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute is working to reach millions of upper elementary school children through an online educational game called "Carnegie Cadets: The MySecureCyberSpace Game."Part One: Cyber Education  Looking for last week's edition on Cyber Education? Find it and President Cohon's introduction to the Cybersecurity publication at CarnegieMellonToday.com. |
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