Potential impacts of a growing gap between theory and practice in information security

Authors:
Yvo Desmedt
Affiliations:
University College London, UK
Venue:
ACISP'05 Proceedings of the 10th Australasian conference on Information Security and Privacy
Year:
2005

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Abstract

We have seen an explosion in the number of: conferences and workshops on all aspects of information security, topics studied in this field, and papers published. At the same time we have only seen a few widely deployed applications of this research. Meanwhile, computers are becoming less secure and criminals are exploiting new tricks. So, there is clearly a gap between theory and practice in information security. In this paper we analyze it and discuss the potential impacts of this gap.