Safety to the Weak! Security Through Feebleness - An Unorthodox Manifesto

Explore an unorthodox approach to cybersecurity in this 23-minute IEEE conference talk. Delve into the concept of "Security Through Feebleness" as presented by Rick McGeer at the 2016 LangSec Workshop. Examine the challenges and opportunities in Software-Defined Infrastructure, focusing on the need for guaranteed properties of performance and function in opaque, user-independent systems. Investigate the importance of static bug detection and inherently verifiable infrastructure configurations. Learn about the tractability of verification in state-free and finite-state systems, particularly in OpenFlow rulesets and configuration layers. Consider the community's challenge in designing usable, concise configuration models for software-defined infrastructure that maintain weak semantics and appropriate performance abstractions while enabling verification.