15.580 / 17.447 / 17.448  Seminar in Information Technology - Focus on Strategic Aspects of Cybersecurity

Spring 2018

17.447 / 17.448 / 15.580

Monday 1:00 – 3:00 pm

Room E62-350

 

Professor Nazli Choucri                                                       

Political Science Department                                               

nchoucri@mit.edu       

Professor Stuart Madnick
Sloan School of Management

smadnick@mit.edu  

     

With participation and presentations by

Joel Brenner (CSAIL), David D. Clark (CSAIL), Howard Shrobe (CSAIL),

Keri Pearlson (Sloan), Michael Siegel (Sloan)

 

Cybersecurity is a critical imperative for the United States and for almost all countries, economies, markets, and politics.  Incidents of unauthorized access, malware use, and market for malware, outright cyber theft – even cyber interference in political process – are all growing faster than our ability to track, or measure, let alone respond effectively.

 

In this seminar we will discuss:

What is going on? Why? How? What can be done?

Examples such as Stuxnet shows geopolitical and strategic dimensions in contrast to economic impacts to TJ Max and other cases. What are the patterns? Where are the contentions? What are solutions? 

This course courses explores “ who does what, when, how and why ” – and with what consequences.

We envision active and lively discussions amongst the students and presenters.

Course materials at http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/17/sp18/17.447/index.html