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Atlanta, GA | Posted: September 28, 2016
Laura Diamond
Institute Communications
404-894-6016
@LauraRDiamond
Summary Sentence:
The Institute for Information Security and Privacy at Georgia Tech examines emerging cyber threats for 2017.
Full Summary:
The Institute for Information Security and Privacy at Georgia Tech examines emerging cyber threats for 2017. The expert-driven annual review was released at the annual Cyber Security Summit, which has become the Atlanta IT community’s foremost event on cybersecurity.
GA Tech TowerGeorgia Tech’s 2017 Emerging Cyber Threats, Trends and Technologies report highlights concerns about global manipulation of information, health care fraud, data encryption and other issues likely to affect society in the year ahead. The report, produced annually, is an expert-driven review of recent cybersecurity trends, developing research and threat considerations.
Among the findings:
“Cyberattacks today are flourishing because almost every organization conducts some portion of its business online — putting even digitally cautious consumers at risk when it is not sufficiently protected,” said Wenke Lee, co-director of the Institute for Information Security and Privacy (IISP) and professor of computer science at Georgia Tech. “There is widespread reluctance to share threat information, and there’s a lack of public attribution about who is responsible, making it nearly impossible for the public to defend themselves.”
Georgia Tech’s broad understanding of cybersecurity issues can be used to develop strategies to address a range of threats, noted Bo Rotoloni, co-director of IISP.
“Under this unique combination, Georgia Tech can help foretell how the ‘white hats’ should prepare because we continually witness how the ‘black hats’ adapt,” said Rotoloni, director of the Information and Cyber Sciences Directorate at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the university’s applied research arm.
Georgia Tech issues the Threat Report each fall in conjunction with its annual Cyber Security Summit, which is taking place today in Tech Square. The summit brings together government, industry and academia for objective conversation about the challenges of securing information and cyber-connected systems.
-- Written by Tara La Bouff
