Tor: the second-generation onion router
SSYM'04 Proceedings of the 13th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 13
Collective Defense: Applying the Public-Health Model to the Internet
IEEE Security and Privacy
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It has been a longstanding goal of the cyber-security community to improve the collective security of the general computing population by reducing the attack incidents and the overall susceptibility to attack; we refer to this as improving the public cyber-security. Traditionally, computer security techniques have tried to accomplish this by focusing upon securing specific computing systems and networks. This approach is akin to the practice of medicine in the health care industry to treat illness and disease in individuals. In the field of health care, the collective health of the population is treated by the practice of public health. Currently, there is no analogous public cyber-security system to treat the collective cyber-health of the computing population. We assert that a public cyber-security system, based upon well founded, sound principles currently used in the public health care discipline is needed in order to satisfy our longstanding goal of improving public cyber-security. We outline some of the technical features of such a system and how it might operate.