by Christina Gagnier, Lovisa Williams, Sarah Granger and Stephanie Margossian
The future of cybersecurity is indeterminable. While the threat at times remains ambiguous, its effects are real, affecting government agencies around the globe. At a time when we are met with seemingly innocuous hacking efforts, such as a text change to the CIA website, as well as data breaches that compromise whole companies, such as the Epsilon and Sony data breaches of early 2011, qualifying, managing and developing appropriate responses to these threats will be imperative.
This panel will bring together the technical, legal and content management perspectives critical to creating national, and international cybersecurity policy. An issue intimate to the attendees of SXSW, the very real issue of hacker culture meets high security threat will be explored. The chasm between these worlds has had obvious consequences, and the goal of this panel is to facilitate a conversation that asks important questions and stimulates discussion around possible solutions.