The document discusses emerging threats to cybersecurity from nation states like China, Russia, and Iran, citing a report that a Chinese military group compromised over 140 companies over 10 years. It notes that nation states can break into systems if they want. It also discusses how the internet undermines truth and could enable "denial of truth attacks" and "zombie armies of disinformation." Additionally, it argues that the internet has flattened norms of human behavior in ways that threaten humanity's existence. However, it also notes emerging opportunities around mobile devices, cloud computing, big data, and social/location technologies if organizations respond quickly and think about security, business, and consumerization.

1. Threat Assessment:
The New Normal
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.
Vice Chancellor and CIO
Board of Regents

2. Agenda
• Emerging Threats
• Emerging
Opportunities
• Business Impact

3. 3,300 mile Private Cloud
Virtual Library
Software Store
Enterprise Security and ePrivacy
Distance Education Learning Management
Enterprise Financials Enterprise BI
Library Operations
Student Information
Collaboration

4. PREMISE 1: GROWING THREAT

5. Emerging Threats
(on a scale of 1 to 10)
10 United States,
United Kingdom,
Russia
7 China
3 Iran

6. Can You Defend Against
100,000 Professionally
Trained Hackers?

7. Consider Mandiant Report on AG1
• Believed to be People Liberation Army Unit 61398.
• State sponsored, state funded, state secret.
• Since 2006, they have compromised 141 companies
spanning 20 major industries.
• Maintained access for an average of 356 days. Longest
measured access was 1,764 days.

8. Focus on Nation States
If a nation state wants
to break into your system,
will they?

9. What to Do?
Security
Incidents
Prevention
DetectionResponse
Future?

10. PREMISE 2: WHAT IS THE TRUTH?

11. First Rule of the Internet
Agreement does not scale

12. Implications
• Rootkits for “truth”
• Denial of truth attacks
• Zombie armies of disinformation?

13. Quiz
• Question: What happens if you Google a
system error?
• Answer: Nation states run a site that provides
guidance on answering a system error while
attacking your computer.

14. PREMISE 3: TIS THE BEST OF TIMES
AND THE WORST OF TIMES

15. Normal Distribution Curve

16. Effect of the WWW on the Normal
Curve of Behavior?

17. It is the best of times,
for morons and geniuses alike.

18. How are Humans
Going to Become Extinct?
• Pandemic?
• Global Warming?
• Asteroids?
• Nuclear War?
• Lord Rees, the
Astronomer Royal and
former president of the
Royal Society, is backing
plans for a Centre for the
Study of Existential Risk.
• "This is the first century in
the world's history when
the biggest threat is from
humanity," says Lord
Rees.

19. Quick Recap
We live in a world of growing threats where a
battle for the truth rages conducted by morons
and geniuses alike, operating from safe havens
created by a flattening of the norms of human
behavior which threaten the very existence of
mankind….
[run-on but
very depressing sentence continues]

20. Emerging Opportunities
Well, we have the geniuses….

21. 6.8 billion people….
5.1 own cell phones….
4.1 own toothbrushes….

23. Security
Business
Intel
Real-
Time
LocationSocial
Privacy
Global
Consumerization
Cloud
Big Data

24. Response as important as Prevention
Get Agile
Get Big
Think Consumerization
Build Mobile
FirstThink Social

25. Questions, Comments, a
Conversation
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.
Vice Chancellor and CIO
Board of Regents