December 5, 2003

Computer-Security Experts Urge Researchers to Restructure Networks

By DAN CARNEVALE

Computer-security experts called on researchers last month to develop long-term cures for security problems instead of just creating "patches" to fix immediate failures.

Eugene Spafford, director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Purdue University, told a news conference here that computer scientists should rethink the construction of computer networks so that security is embedded, effective, and easy to use. But smaller, immediate

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