USC Experts On New York Times Hacking
Cybersecurity issues expose new risks to news media, government and private Internet users.
Contact: Andrew Good at 213-740-8606 or gooda@usc.edu.
How Do Hackers Pick Their Targets?
B. Clifford Neuman is an expert in cybersecurity, e-commerce and online payments. He is director of the USC Center for Computer Systems security and associate research professor at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. He is available to discuss how websites are targeted by hackers and how web administrators defend them from attack.
Contact at: (310) 448-8736 or bcn@isi.edu.
What Threats Lie in the Cloud?
Michael Orosz is an expert in counter-terrorism with USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute and the USC National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE). He is available to speak about data vulnerability and cyber crime.
“We’re going to a cloud architecture, which is sufficient and makes a cheap operation for most companies, but at the same time, we’re all connected now. A lot of our data and control of that cloud architecture is out of the hands of the business community that relies on it. That doesn’t mean we run from the problem – it just means we need to understand it and work together to put up effective barriers to prevent this from happening in the future.”
Contact: (310) 448-8266 or mdorosz@isi.edu.
What Do Hackers Mean for News Media?
Karen North is an expert in digital media, director of the Annenberg Program on Online Communities and a professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She is available to discuss the challenges media outlets like The New York Times face in the digital age.
“Because we now live in a digital environment and because access to our businesses is public, there is new risk. Smart businesses have to become even smarter about security and privacy. We now live in a world where our personal and professional lives are distributed out around the world — which is great, from a globalization perspective — but you’re no longer sitting next to your collaborators in the same room.”
Contact: (310) 650-5689 or knorth@usc.edu.
