Cybersecurity for Critical Urban Infrastructure
Preparing city officials, agency staff and a new generation of cybersecurity consultants to understand, help prevent and manage cyberattacks on vulnerable communities across America.
Cybersecurity for Critical Urban Infrastructure
Preparing city officials, agency staff and a new generation of cybersecurity consultants to understand, help prevent and manage cyberattacks on vulnerable communities across America.
Critical urban infrastructure including energy, transportation, waste management, emergency service and communication systems are being hacked remotely by cyber attackers. These hackers use ransomware to encrypt the data cities need to run; then, they demand that public agencies pay a ransom to get their own data back. Cyberattacks incur substantial costs extending to tens of millions of dollars to recreate data that are lost and undermine the reputation of city governments across America.
What you'll learn
- Questions you need to ask to prepare a vulnerability assessment.
- Ways to interact with public agency staff who might feel it is wrong to reveal evidence of a cyberattack.
- The rules of confidentiality that apply to studying cybersecurity breaches.
- The scale, scope and impact of cyberattacks that are already happening.
Prerequisites
None. This course can accommodate a range of learners including those with limited knowledge or experience in the field.
Meet your instructors
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Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning -
Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies & Planning -
Principal Research Scientist -
Security Researcher
Lawrence Susskind
Lawrence Susskind
Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning
Larry Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT where he has been a member of the teaching and research faculty for almost fifty years. He is head of MIT’s Science Impact Collaborative (scienceimpact.mit.edu) and teaches a variety of negotiation courses for undergraduates, graduate students, mid-career executive, and senior managers. Larry is co-founder and Vice-Chair of the inter-university Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (pon.harvard.edu) and founder and chief knowledge officer of the Consensus Building Institute (cbi.org). Through these two organizations, Larry has provided face-to-face training in negotiation, conflict management and collaboration to more than 30,000 individuals in 30 countries.
Larry has authored or co-authored more than twenty books, reprinted in eight languages, including Good for You, Great for Me: Finding the Trading Zone and Winning at Win-Win Negotiation, Built to Win: Creating a World-Class Negotiating Organization, and Entrepreneurial Negotiation: Understanding the Managing the Relationships that Determine Your Entrepreneurial Success.
Jungwoo Chun
Jungwoo Chun
Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies & Planning
Jungwoo Chun, a graduate of the doctoral program at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Policy and Planning. He has previously directed the MIT Cybersecurity Clinic and led the client recruitment process and oversaw student team engagement with the client communities seeking to combat the growing cybersecurity threats they face. The Clinic (11.074/11.274) has been so successful that now there is a Consortium of University-based Cybersecurity Clinics modeled on the MIT Clinic (https://cybersecurityclinics.org/). He was a graduate instructor for a number of courses in DUSP including 11.601 Introduction to Environmental Policy and Planning, 11.255 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector, and was a co-instructor of 11.382 Water Diplomacy: The Science, Policy, and Politics of Managing Shared Resources. He currently teaches the MIT Cybersecurity Clinic (11.074/11.274) and the MIT Renewable Energy Siting Clinic (11.092/11.592). He continues to brainstorm ways to improve pedagogical strategies and techniques, including ways of incorporating online learning tools, and combining them with in-person instruction. For a number of years, he has been a content developer and graduate instructor for online courses offered by MIT xPRO and edX/MITx, that have attracted more than 10,000 learners world-wide.
Daniel Weitzner
Daniel Weitzner
Principal Research Scientist
Daniel J. Weitzner is Founding Director of the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative, Principal Research Scientist at CSAIL. He was United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy in the White House where he led initiatives on privacy, cybersecurity, copyright, and digital trade policies, and was responsible for the Obama Administration’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and the OECD Internet Policymaking Principles.
Weitzner is a founder of the Center for Democracy and Technology, led the World Wide Web Consortium’s public policy activities, was Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and currently is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. He is a recipient of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Leadership Award (2013), the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award (2016), was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (2019) and is a member of Council on Foreign Relations.
Gregory Falco
Gregory Falco
Security Researcher
Dr. Gregory Falco is a security researcher at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His assured autonomy research for smart cities and space assets with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory spans IoT, AI, and distributed systems. He is also a security researcher at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center where he researches and teaches cyber risk management. Falco is a Fellow at Harvard's Cyber Security Project in the Belfer Center. Prior to his Ph.D. he co-founded and led Accenture's Smart Cities division. Falco earned his Ph.D. from MIT and holds an M.S from Columbia University and a B.S. from Cornell University.