The Internet of Risky Things: Trusting the
Devices That
Surround Us
Sean Smith
2 PM, Thursday, April 20, 2017
Location: IOL Training Room
Please register.
Abstract. The coming “Internet of Things (IoT)” distributes computational devices massively in almost any axis imaginable and connects them intimately to previously non-cyber aspects of human life. If we build this new Internet the way we built the current one, we are heading for trouble: the paradigms protecting the current Internet break down when devices become too long-lived, too cheap, too tightly tied to physical life, too invisible, and too many.
This talk explores risks of IoT to security, privacy, and society—and considers some ways to mitigate them.
Bio. Professor Sean Smith has been working in information security—attacks and defenses, for industry and government—since before the web. Former staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory and designer of security architecture at IBM, he’s a Professor at Dartmouth and now directs its Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, investigating how to build trustworthy systems in the real world.