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>> Denise Anthony: If you think about any kind of critical information infrastructure,
whether it's the power grid, whether it's electronic health records,
whether it's your access to your financial information via the Internet on your computer
or your mobile smart phone, we are all using these critical information infrastructures every
day for a lot of our lives, and our institutional lives as well.
>> Michael Locasto: People have things that other people value and want,
whether that's medical information or financial data, or personal data,
there will always be the motivation to try to corrupt
or take over other people's systems and networks and devices.
And this is always, you know, sort of a continuously interesting cat and mouse game.
>> Dickie George: The bad guys will always be ahead of the good guys.
The good guys will set up rules, they'll set up the game.
The bad guys will try to cheat.
How do they take advantage of the rules to do things you don't want them to do.
>> Rebecca Shapiro: The better the attack,
the better the [inaudible] you'll have another attack, you'll have a defense for it.
There's always just that race.
The attacks get more intricate, and defenses get more intricate.
>> David Kotz: You really need to learn to think like the attacker.
In order to build effective defenses, you need to understand the offense.
And so one of the things that ISTS does is to spend some time thinking like the attacker,
thinking like the adversary, in fact trying to develop ways to break current secure systems.
>> Sean Smith: Our students are working with [inaudible] engineers doing security assessments
on campus, and getting their hands very dirty
on how real infrastructure works, and where the holes are.
With the business school we placed students in large investment banks
and saw how things actually worked.
Through medical we've been doing work with how things work in large healthcare providers.
And what happens on the ground is different from what the, you know,
the computer security textbooks say.
>> Rebecca Shapiro: We got connections to people in the healthcare industry and other industries
that we can have real conversations about what the problems they see are,
and start working on them, or start seeing how we can incorporate their problems
into our existing research.
It's just great to have this connection with real stuff
as opposed to staying at our academic cave.
>> Denise Anthony: We have some of the leading researchers here across Dartmouth,
in the medical school, in computer science,
and the social sciences working on just these issues.
>> Michael Locasto: What we do can be immediately put into practice, right.
It's that we don't need to necessarily spend months culturing something in a lab environment.
So in many respects, Dartmouth is a perfect place for this type of program.
>> Dickie George: The cyber world is changing incredibly fast.
Everybody has to think differently, everybody has to realize that they are a target.
If you look at ISTS, the work they've done with healthcare in dealing with security issues
and personal privacy, security of information, it's been tremendously important.
The cyber warriors have to build the tools that will protect the end users.
And that's what ISTS is doing, they're building those cyber warriors.
They're the combatants that are going to protect the nation in the future.
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