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DESCRIPTION: Abstract:   A cyber attacker needs to find only one way in\, w
 hile defenders need to guard a lot of ground. Adversaries can fully debug a
 nd perfect their attacks on their own computers\, exactly replicating the e
 nvironment that they will later be targeting. This is the situation today\,
  which has been exacerbated by an increasing trend towards a software "mono
 culture\," in which there are only two major desktop operating systems\, tw
 o major phone operating systems\, one major office software suite\, and so 
 on.  One possible defense is based on making the targets more dissimilar fr
 om each other\, which raises the cost to attackers since they need to adapt
  their attack to each specific target. An alternative defense is based on c
 reating a model of what a "correct" program does\, and enforcing that model
  at run-time. I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these two 
 approaches and their evolution over the past two decades. Unfortunately\, a
 ttackers are evolving too\, resulting in a "cat and mouse" situation in whi
 ch defenses are almost always reactive to attacks that have already been ob
 served. I will discuss my vision of how to get ahead of the attackers\, and
  close by stating why\, in spite of the bleak situation today\, I am confid
 ent that we will eventually be able to stop most kinds of low-level cyber a
 ttacks completely.   
DTSTAMP:20250108T150300
DTSTART:20250425T141500
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LOCATION:Takustraße 9\, Seminarrraum 049
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SUMMARY:Michael Franz (Irvine)\, Cyber Attacks and Defenses: Trends\, Chall
 enges\, and Outlook
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URL:https://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/inf/dates/kolloquium/2025-04-25-Michael-Fra
 nz.html
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