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Creating a Cybersecurity Commons

Creating a Cybersecurity Commons

1995 Visualization of Earth's City Lights from http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=55167

2010 Visualization of Facebook Friends from https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=469716398919

Why a Commons Matters

2013 http://allthingsd.com/20131120/how-somebody-forced-the-worlds-internet-traffic-through-belarus-and-iceland/

1. Do you know through

what nations your

internet traffic is being

routed?

Border Gateway

Protocol and Global

Routing Tables by

design are unsecure.

Why a Commons Matters

2013 http://allthingsd.com/20131120/how-somebody-forced-the-worlds-internet-traffic-through-belarus-and-iceland/

2. Rise of cybercrime

and spearfishing “data

extortion” attacks on

members of the public.

Cybersecurity 80%

humans, 20%

technology; how do we

to help the innocent?

Why a Commons Matters

3. Our public lives,

health, and wellbeing

connect increasingly

direct to the internet.

What happens when the

“internet of things” is

embodied in our bodies

and attacked en masse?

How a Commons Would Work

1. Every node a sensor:

near real-time machine-

to-machine exchanges

at massive scale.

Known participants

volunteer to share

anonymously any

attacks they observe.

How a Commons Would Work

2. Akin to “fire alarms”:

trusted commons shares

alerts and patterns to all,

can triangulate activities.

Known participants

receive back group’s

collective intelligence

enabling early warnings.

How a Commons Would Work

3. Foundation for cures:

real-time longitudal data

research base for fixes

and cyber interventions.

Trusted commons could

distribute patches or

recommend changes to

thwart attacks.

What a Commons Would Benefit

1. Private sector:

Anonymous reporting by

known entities protects

private sector firms from

reputation concerns or

lawsuits stemming from

disclosure of an attack

or lost of data.

What a Commons Would Benefit

2. Non-Profits:

Expands niche for

“cyber watchdogs”; also

often lack the capital for

necessary cybersecurity

defenses, can benefit

from the collective

intelligence of others.

What a Commons Would Benefit

3. Public:

Could also contribute in

the commons by

voluntarily downloading

an open source app to

report attacks on a

devices in return for

hardening its security.

Creating a Cybersecurity Commons

Example Map

Questions?

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Example Open Source App at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samknows.fcc&hl=en