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EPISODE · Oct 14, 2026 · 33 MIN

Defining Cybersecurity with Gene Spafford - Computerphile

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Legendary cyber-security expert Professor Gene Spafford joins us to try to define what cyber-security even is! "Spaf" as he's known, is a faculty member at Purdue University and now Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham. Dr Spafford is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for the Advancement of Science, the ACM, the IEEE, and the (ISC)2; a Distinguished Fellow of the ISSA; and a member of the Cyber Security Hall of Fame, the only person to ever hold all these distinctions.The book "Cybersecurity, Myths and Misconceptions" can be found here: https://bit.ly/C_CyberMythsBook https://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputerComputerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at https://www.bradyharanblog.comThank you to Jane Street for their support of this channel. Learn more: https://www.janestreet.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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