Show 013 - An Interview with Ross Anderson
On the 13th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary chats with Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering at the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University and author of the book Security Engineering. Gary and Ross discuss the effect of posting his excellent book on the net for free, the simple reasons why most systems fail, the economic imbalance between engineers/developers and a system’s users (with respect to who should address security), and why publicly describing attacks is essential to security engineering. They close out by examining the security implications of wearing a kilt.
- Ross Anderson
- Light Blue Touchpaper - A security blog by Cambridge computer scientists.
- Security Engineering - Ross’ groundbreaking book in print and online
- WEIS 2007 - Sixth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
- RFID and the Middleman [PDF]
- The Clan Anderson Society
- Ross playing the bagpipes
April 16th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Just listened to the Ross Anderson podcast. One of Ross’s
comments made me realize one thing that I hadn’t previously
thought about.
I never realized that the MITM attacks against RFIDs in
NFC-enabled cell phones was going to help reduce violent
crime (i.e., muggings). I’ll bet the phone companies
haven’t thought of spinning that angle yet.
And that picture of Ross in the kilt playing bagpipes in
the streets…he must be a brave man to put that up on
his own web site. Guess he figures there’s less chance
at extortion if he does it first. He needs to add a bit
of background bagpipe music to it though.
-kevin
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
[…] As many of you know, I have a podcast called “The Silver Bullet Security Podcast with Gary McGraw.” The premise of the podcast is to interview various security gurus, both from industry and academia. We’ve done some great ones, including Ross Anderson, Bruce Schneier, and John Stewart. […]
April 16th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
[…] Incidentally, I interviewed Ross for Silver Bullet last year (in April). Ross’s episode is the most popular of all 24 episodes released to date with over 18,000 downloads. You might want to give that a listen as well. […]