Cybersecurity considerations for digital libraries in an era of pervasive computing

Information technology is becoming pervasive in our society and for most people it is an unavoidable part of everyday life. This talk traces this evolution to the present day and make projections to an era later this decade when the prevailing system architecture may consist of information utilities accessed intuitively through a wide variety of specialized information appliances, many of them mobile. This talk explore the challenges involved in detecting, preventing and mitigating malicious attacks by those seeking to disrupt the global information infrastructure, and highlight research efforts needed to solve them.