DETROIT – Dan Shoemaker, who is in charge of the University of Detroit Mercy’s Information Assurance Center, is on his way to Paris to help the European Union develop a European strategy to secure cyberspace, starting with tightening up software code.
Shoemaker is one of four delegates from the United States that will share details from the just released US study, National Strategy for a Secure Cyberspace to “make software less crappy,” he said in an interview Friday.
“There’s lots of buggy code out there used on the Internet,” he said. “Right now if anybody wanted to take a bank down over the Internet, they could do that because the software we have is vulnerable. That also includes our entire national infrastructure.”
Shoemaker is the Chairman of the Department of Homeland Security Workforce, Training and Education Taskforce. The conference takes place in Paris from March 2-4.
“The idea is to have an action plan when we leave on March 4,” Shoemaker said. “We’ll try to answer the question, how can we cooperate as a technical community across the Atlantic?”
Shoemaker will discuss his Paris security conference when he returns with MITechNews.Com. Be sure to look for his reports from Europe.
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