HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — In the recent past the idea was to keep the hackers totally out of your system or put a wall around it, but that idea is changing.
Doctor Ron Ross is a fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His passion and expertise is Cyber-Security.
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He was brought to Huntsville by UAH to share his knowledge, and while he was in town he also did this week’s leadership perspectives interview with Steve Johnson.
The conversation covers everything from what the NIST does, to where we are in the effort to make our computer systems cyber-secure, or ‘resilient.’
“It’s kind of like you have a lock on the front door of your house, and the bad guys can go right through that. If they come into your house, they can go to any room and they can steal all your valuables. What if you have a vault or a safe in every room inside your house? Now the adversary is in your house, but they’re going to have to work to get to everyone of those barriers inside the house. That’s kind of where we’re moving with resiliency,” Ross said.