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Re: Researcher seeks volunteers for interview
From: "Bradley, Stephen W. Mr." <bradlesw () MUOHIO EDU>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:37:56 -0500
I don't even answer the phone with anything other than "This is Steve". I don't tell cold callers or anyone I don't do business with what department I work in or anything about us. ;-) Steve -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Valdis Kletnieks Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 1:05 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Researcher seeks volunteers for interview On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:31:25 EST, Michelle Young said:
Research volunteers from the field of cyber security, 18 years of age and older, are being sought to participate in a Penn State research study of cyber security professionals. Specifically, the research seeks to understand how cyber security professionals make decisions under complex circumstances. The study involves a one-hour telephone interview to discuss cognitive tasks, methods, and techniques used by the analyst to prevent and detect cyber security attacks.
Does detecting a social-engineering attack count? ;) Sorry Michelle - but that's somewhat a serious question. Security professionals are by nature at least somewhat paranoid, and unlikely to volunteer info unless they're reasonably sure they know who they're talking to. And it isn't just you - we don't even have a good handle on the number of compromised zombie computers out there, because most of the people who have any hard data are often not talking because either their employer gets a competitive advantage from the hard data, or not wanting the black hats to know how much we do/don't know about their activities.
Current thread:
- Researcher seeks volunteers for interview Michelle Young (Mar 04)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Researcher seeks volunteers for interview Valdis Kletnieks (Mar 04)
- Re: Researcher seeks volunteers for interview Bradley, Stephen W. Mr. (Mar 04)
- Re: Researcher seeks volunteers for interview Michelle Young (Mar 04)
- Re: Researcher seeks volunteers for interview Joel Rosenblatt (Mar 04)
- Re: Researcher seeks volunteers for interview Brad Judy (Mar 04)
- Re: Researcher seeks volunteers for interview Ness, Carl J (Mar 04)
- Re: Researcher seeks volunteers for interview Mark Montague (Mar 04)
- Re: Researcher seeks volunteers for interview Mike Waite (Mar 04)
- Re: Researcher seeks volunteers for interview Steven Alexander (Mar 04)
- Re: Researcher seeks volunteers for interview Megan Carney (Mar 08)