The intensity and frequency of attacks on information systems and services seems to be growing without bounds. This is happening across all sectors of society.
The effects of these attacks, as well as our experience with other recent events such as the COVID pandemic, have given us a new understanding of the critical roles that archives, repositories, and scholarly communications systems play as part of the essential cyberinfrastructure for the research and higher education community (and indeed far beyond this community).
The conversation will explore these questions:
- The nature of the evolving threat landscape is complex and contains numerous actors with varying motivations. This includes ransomware, denial of service attacks, strategic compromise, and aggressive harvesting, among others. How might we better understand this landscape?
- Approaches to understanding, documenting, and communicating the costs, impacts, and implications of breaches, including to the broad public.
- What collective actions might help our community become more resilient and secure? For example, is there a need or a role for an Information Sharing and Analysis Center type organization? What might be done to facilitate bilateral or multilateral backup and disaster recovery arrangements? How can funding be generated to help improve security and resilience? What should be prioritized?
The closing plenary will include significant time for audience engagement and discussion.
