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Resilience – a new Security Paradigm?

Prof. Dr. Günter Müller, Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany

Abstract

Security handles in an active mode properties that bad things from happening. There is no space for risks. A password should not be broken. In social systems the exploration of the "unknown" is the main objective, i.e. find an new friend or better offer From a security point of view there are no security properties known. The participant runs a risk. Risks is a source of progress, because something "Good" should happen. Resilience incorporates risk and specifies alternative paths, if a risk situation occurs. Resilience has many traces of security events, and can be specified for each of them, but not yet for the interrelationship. The acceptable traces are a member of the resilience set.

Professor Dr. Günter Müller

has been working at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany since 1990 and is now a full professor and founder director of the new Institute for Computer Science and Social Studies. In 2000 Professor Müller was scientific expert adviser at the Federal Government’s Conference on “Progressive Governance in the 21. Century”. Daimler-Benz funded the research with Professor Müller as head of the consortium that lead to the development of the concept of multilateral security. German Research Foundation endowed Professor Mueller to define a “Priority Programme about Security in Information and Communication Technology” (1999-2006). The German Federal Ministery of Economics and Technology selected the project for their CeBIT 2003 demonstration. The act of digital signatures in Germany and the E-Commerce directive, as well as the criteria for security of ISO were heavily influenced by Professor Müller. From 1987 until 1990 he had been a director of IBM Germany. Since 2008 he has been a visiting professor at NII. He was awarded among others with the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for OSI Development in 1986. In 2009 he has received the Austrian “Ehrenkreuz erster Klasse”, a decoration with medal, for services rendered to science and arts. In 2011 the Technical University of Darmstadt has honored him for his contributions to databases, definition of heterogeneous networks and the establishment of IT-Security as an academic discipline with an honorary doctoral degree in Rerum Naturalis. His contributions to establishment of scientific channels between Japan and Germany was especially honored.