Title
A security analysis of police computer systems.
Abstract
Every day we entrust our privacy, safety, and security to police officers sworn to protect and serve. While many critical infrastructure computer systems have been well studied, the computer infrastructure supporting these officers remains to be surveyed in public literature. We remedy this by characterizing a sample police department's systems through a security lens, discussing weak points and areas for future work. Pen-testing of the security camera and web application systems were performed to give hard data points on the security of this department's systems. Our characterization shows that the security of the department we study is good overall, but enough weaknesses exist in this department and others to be concerned for the state of police security. We determine that compliance with FBI security policies is an appropriate first step for departments, but it is not sufficient. More research and increased support for security education and resource services is needed in order to defend these critical systems against adapting adversaries.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
2016 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON PRIVACY, SECURITY AND TRUST (PST)
Security convergence,Internet privacy,Security through obscurity,Computer science,Computer security,Certified Information Security Manager,Security service,Critical security studies,Cloud computing security,Security information and event management,Computer security model
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1712-364X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin VanderSloot11004.96
Stuart Wheaton200.34
J. Alex Halderman32301149.67