Pradeep Khosla Appears on CNN's Headline News

Pradeep Khosla is co-founder and co-director of Carnegie Mellon CyLab which aims to develop new technologies for trustworthy and sutainable computing and communications systems.

CNN Headline News host Renay San Miguel.

College of Engineering Dean Pradeep Khosla was a guest on CNN Headline News with Renay San Miguel on Dec. 15. San Miquel interviewed Khosla via satellite from the Pittsburgh Video Tech Center, downtown.

Khosla, the Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-founder and co-director of Carnegie Mellon CyLab, discussed cybersecurity, Carnegie Mellon CyLab and the challenges facing America's cyber infrastructure.

Khosla told San Miguel that we need to rethink how we craft the next generation of information technology tools. He said we need to concentrate more on developing infrastructures that survive attacks rather than individual viruses.

A big part of CyLab's goal is to help educate the next generation of cybersecurity experts, including a new graduate program being developed for interested students in Japan. He also said that more of the burden of paying for new cybersecurity tools should come from the private sector. However, he was quick to add that both academia and the government sectors still remain important contributors to development of new cybersafe technologies.

As for challenges in holiday online shopping, Khosla said there is no real clear way to identify what sites are bogus. But he suggested that consumers use their own discretion and tap into well-established sites for their holiday shopping needs.

Carnegie Mellon CyLab is a bold and visionary effort aimed at creating a public-private partnership to develop new technologies for measurable, available, secure, trustworthy and sustainable computing and communications systems, and to educate individuals at all levels.

Carnegie Mellon CyLab is a university-wide, multidisciplinary initiative involving more than 200 faculty, students and staff that builds on more than two decades of leadership in information technology.

San Miguel received a Cybersecurity Journalism Award of Merit from Carnegie Mellon CyLab in 2003. He was honored in the online news category for his reporting on cnn.com.

The Cybersecurity Journalism Awards were developed by Carnegie Mellon CyLab and the Information Networking Institute, along with the Washington, D.C.-based Newseum—the only interactive museum of news. The awards honor editors, reporters and producers who have done the most to educate the public about America's ongoing battle to protect cyberspace and preserve our national security.

For more on CyLab visit http://www.cylab.cmu.edu