On October 13th I attended Professor Ezekiel's class to sit in on a guest speaker. The speaker, Dr. Laurent Njilla is a Research Electronic Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, NY. Dr. Njilla did not speak much of his professor as he had another objective in mind, speak about cyber security and the opportunities it presents. With only an hour to speak he quickly jumped into his PowerPoint with great enthusiasm for the topic at hand. The title of this summary was the theme of his presentation and this summary will report a few of the things he covered in the time frame he was given to speak. Dr. Njilla worked on the defense team. The vision of this team is quoted as “To lead the Air Force and Nation in command, control, communications, computers, Intelligence, Cyber Science, technology, and Research and development.” This vision is set to complete their mission of maintaining the United States superior technical advantage. If we remain the biggest and most advance the United States will remain an intimidating force to be reckoned with. Their objective, to provide ability to optimally coordinate and synchronize assets from across
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Njilla starts on his presentation, asking the question “How can we serve our power grid?”. Attackers he calls them adapt to defender’s efforts making it a never-ending race to try to stay on top of each other. An ongoing effort that has no sense of ending, which probably means constant employment. Attackers can develop or purchase zero- day exploits that expose the vulnerabilities within a system that can be used for very malicious intent. Which explains why he called cyber security a “race”, it is nearly impossible to be 100 percent secure so being as secure as possible by upgrading and updating technology, and applying patches to vulnerabilities when they are discovered is the best route to protecting systems. Attackers are persistent and will continue until they reach their
Njilla starts on his presentation, asking the question “How can we serve our power grid?”. Attackers he calls them adapt to defender’s efforts making it a never-ending race to try to stay on top of each other. An ongoing effort that has no sense of ending, which probably means constant employment. Attackers can develop or purchase zero- day exploits that expose the vulnerabilities within a system that can be used for very malicious intent. Which explains why he called cyber security a “race”, it is nearly impossible to be 100 percent secure so being as secure as possible by upgrading and updating technology, and applying patches to vulnerabilities when they are discovered is the best route to protecting systems. Attackers are persistent and will continue until they reach their