Professor David H.C. Du (Qwest Chair Professor, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.)gave a speech on "Cyber Security Impact on Critical Infrastructure Protection." at Multimedia room C on December 29th morning.  All of the IM students participated.

Topic
Cyber Security Impact on Critical Infrastructure Protection 

Abstracts
With the rapid technology advancement and cost reduction, we have built an enormous large Internet. Many critical applications require information to be delivered over Internet. Many small devices like sensors are gradually deployed over Internet. These devices are designed to improve our daily life by monitoring our environment, collecting critical data, and executing special instructions. These devices have gradually become an essential part of our future Internet and most of them are connected to Internet via wireless technology. Unprecedented amount of data are collected by these devices. Security and privacy become great concern for this new world. To meet this challenge, many research issues remain to be done. We will discuss the current and past research directions in cyber security. What progress has being made? What are missing? Why is it so hard to make cyber space secure? Is it possible that we can accomplish our goal to make cyber space secure? What is the impact of cyber security on critical infrastructure protection?