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An international speaker, Dr Pfleeger has addressed audiences from school children to senior technical professionals
on a wide range of topics from computer and information system security. Here is a sample of some of his talks.
- Dumb Ideas in Computer Security. Computer security approaches that are popular but do not result in solid
security.
- The Enemy Has Surrounded the Castle—Is It Time To Develop a Strategy? The race between attackers
and defenders is hardly a contest: The attackers are more numerous and have many advantages. How to keep the offense–defense
gap from widening.
- The Outsourcing Game: Who Do You Trust? Outsourcing security functions has both strengths and pitfalls.
How do you control outsourcing to produce good outcomes?
- There's More to Security Than Meets the Eye. Terrorists use computers and networks to achieve certain
goals. How do terrorists use computing, what are the possible outcomes, and what can we do about this use?
- Computer Security and the Privacy of Patient Data. Computerization has the potential to make healthcare
more efficient and effective. Protecting patient privacy is necessary, too. Some non-obvious flaws in privacy protection schemes
and some approaches.
- Protecting Your Business: What's New in Information Security. As technology for computer and information
security evolves, businesses need to evaluate new approaches.
- Computer Security from the Trojan Wars to the Present. Although a relatively young profession, computer
security has a rich history of lessons learned—or forgotten. Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat the
past.
- Security for Software Developers. Developers with good intentions sometimes do things that complicate
or even thwart good security. Design principles for developers.
- Computer Security: You Get What You Pay For. Computer security has been under-appreciated and under-funded
relative to other software requirements. Some suggestions for adjusting the balance.
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