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Re "Campuses Face Rising Threat From Hackers" (front page, July 17):
I read with great dismay your article about the surge of foreign cyberattacks on computer systems in American universities. Who bears the cost of these attacks?
Ostensibly, it is universities, which now have to pay security professionals more to protect their systems. But one unappreciated casualty is big-data scientific research.
The many researchers who share large amounts of data over the Web in fields like astronomy and genomics will have their work dramatically impeded by both the hacking and the ensuing security restrictions created in response, since computer security restrictions often inevitably make it more difficult to share access to computer systems over the Web.
MARK GERSTEIN
New Haven, July 22, 2013
The writer is a professor of biomedical informatics, molecular biophysics and biochemistry, and computer science at Yale.
To the Editor:
As the dean of a college that houses a department of computing security, I want to add an important point to your article. Universities, among the myriad organizations experiencing these potentially devastating attacks, are also in a position to be part of the solution.
We must continue to invest in new degrees and educational programs in computing security, teaching students not just the technologies but also the essential critical thinking skills needed to defend our systems and digital information in this rapidly changing environment while instilling a sense of ethics and morality.
Well-educated, well-grounded computing graduates will be our best defense from the countless, increasingly sophisticated attacks that invade our privacy, cost us money and threaten our national security.
Providing them the best, most relevant education possible is a responsibility we take very seriously.
ANDREW SEARS
Rochester, July 22, 2013
The writer is a professor and dean of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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