Pizza & Politics

Lock Down. Cybersecurity and your individual rights.

As always, the pizza's on us; the opinions are all yours!

Here's why this topic matters:

How can government combat cyber-security threats without compromising individual liberties?
According to the Center for Democracy and Technology, the United States faces significant cyber-security threats from state actors, criminals and terrorists. The government is developing policies and practices to meet this challenge, but some proposals pose undue risk to privacy, openness and innovation.

As part of a 2010 expert panel on the topic of cyber-security, former counter-terrorism czar, Richard Clarke claimed that the U.S. is drastically unprepared to defend itself from cyber attacks. Said Clarke, ""We have no public strategy to fight cyber war” said Clarke. "In fact, we have no private strategy.”

Clarke says that every day "we are being attacked,” and "every major company, every government institution has been successfully penetrated.”

The core question at hand? How do you engage in cyber-security in open governments that value individual rights when combating countries that do not?

Many experts (including Clarke and former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff) say that the solution is for governmental agencies to establish policy, as well as protection and privacy standards, but leave the execution of the policies to other nongovernmental entities.

Join us with Global Velocity CEO, Greg Sullivan for a closer look at the unfamiliar issue of cyber-security and your personal freedoms at Pizza & Politics, Wednesday, October 5 at 6:00 p.m. in the Sunnen Lounge (Webster University Center).

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