SysSec: Managing Threats and Vulnerabilities in the Future Internet.
Evangelos P. Markatos, Herbert Bos · 2012
For many years, cyber attackers have been one step ahead of the defenders. The asymmetric nature of the threat has led to a vicious cycle where attackers end up winning. SysSec, a new Network of Excellence in the area of Systems Security, attempts to break this vicious cycle and encourages researchers to work not on yesterday’s attacks but on tomorrow’s threats, to anticipate the attackers ’ next move and to make sure they are prepared. Over the past decade we have seen a large number of cyber attacks on the Internet. Motivated by financial profits or political purposes, cyber attackers usually launch attacks that stay below the radar, are difficult to detect, and exploit the weakest link: the user. We believe that the core of the problem lies in the nature of cyber security itself: in the current practice of cyber security,