Re: [Smart] Draft Charter For SMART Proposed RG

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

FWIW, I think the message below is a good example of why
the kind of explicit text I argued for is needed in any
putative charter.

S.

On 29/09/18 00:55, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> May I suggest that this nomenclature discussion be tabled and we go on to examine previous work in this area first so that no wheels are reinvented?  
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> Or first start with a useful summary of such work and existing approaches?
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> We already have products in the market from cisco and others that deal with this at a network level examining alternatives to DPI - either look at traffic metadata to fingerprint badness or decrypt and re encrypt data on the fly are two common approaches.
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> Malware and any other kind of online crime investigation and forensics gets that much harder with bad guys having just as much as or better access to strong encryption and the data anonymization that GDPR provides.
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> What else?
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> --srs
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>> On 29-Sep-2018, at 4:29 AM, Bret Jordan <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> I respectfully disagree that cyber security is a widely-abused marketing term.  I do agree with you that the “Cloud”, “Hybrid-Cloud” etc are just fancy marketing terms..  If we need to sharpen our pencils to provide some definitions, then lets not argue about it, lets just do it. From my stance, Data Security, Information Security and Cyber Security are very different
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