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Life after Heartbleed

Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - 9:00am-9:45am

Discussion Leader: Matt Green, Johns Hopkins University

Abstract: 

Beneath the Internet as we know it lies a sprawling and vulnerable security infrastructure. Until recently this infrastructure was assumed to be self-maintaining; many developers simply ignored it. The April 2014 publication of the Heartbleed vulnerability exposed the folly of this approach. More than a simple vulnerability, Heartbleed was a watershed moment for our community: for the first time in decades, the vulnerability of our security libraries was front page news. At one level, the Heartbleed vulnerability is simply a story of poor software design. But viewed with a wider lens, Heartbleed revealed fundamental weaknesses in our design patterns, trust models, resource allocation, and more. In this session we will discuss the Heartbleed vulnerability as a technical and cultural phenomenon; explore the way it’s changed our industry; discuss the responses to Heartbleed (both technical and organizational); and explore approaches to securing the Internet’s critical infrastructure going forward.

BibTeX
@conference {209087,
title = {Life after Heartbleed},
year = {2014},
address = {San Diego, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = aug,
}
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