Cybersecurity: Opportunities and Challenges

The world is reliant on Information more than ever This reliance has resulted in a significant impact on our quality of life – more than two thirds of the productivity gains in the US economy are attributable to IT During the past decade the number of attacks on our infrastructure have grown at an exponential rate In this talk we will identify the sources of these attacks and offer a vision for the future We will describe the research agenda being pursued in Carnegie Mellon CyLab and how it contributes to the future vision.