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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:42:33 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: tim finin <finin () cs umbc edu> Organization: HTTP://UMBC.EDU/ Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:40:47 -0400 To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Where have all the real hackers gone? Dave -- The announcement I sent earlier was missing the talk abstract, which is included below. It sounds like it will be a good talk. tim -- Distinguished Lecture Series in Information Assurance Center for Information Security and Assurance University of Maryland Baltimore County WHERE HAVE ALL THE REAL HACKERS GONE? Thomas A. Longstaff, Ph.D. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/staff/tal/ Manager, Survivable Network Technology CERT Coordination Center CMU Software Engineering Institute 1:00pm Friday, April 12, 2002, 215 Fine Arts, UMBC Who are the real hackers today? The good guys and the bad guys are using insights into the technology to which they alone are privy. Are they truly gone, along with the early cowboy days of the ARPA-Net? All of us have heard about the growing number of attacks in cyber-space; we simply dismiss all of this activity as we dismiss traveling along at 60 in a 55 mph zone. So should this really put our minds at ease that the major threats of the early days are gone? Not on your DSL-life! The real hackers are still out there, hiding in the noise of the multitudes. Our real challenge over the next 10 years will be to develop technologies and techniques to "see" these real hackers and begin to put a stop to their free reign on our networked systems. To accomplish this, we will need to find and employ the true and good hackers in our cyber-defense centers around the world. Only in doing so will we able to go beyond the simple application of known techniques and create the new vision of information assurance. Dr. Tom Longstaff is a senior member of the technical staff in the Networked Systems Survivability (NSS) Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). He is currently managing research and development in network security for the NSS Program. Publication areas include information survivability, insider threat, intruder modeling, and intrusion detection. As a member of the CERT Coordination Center (an incident handling team at the SEI), Tom has daily access to the most up-to-date information on Internet security, product vulnerabilities, and intruder profiles in existence. Since 1997, Tom has been investigating topics related to information survivability and critical national infrastructure protection. Prior to coming to the Software Engineering Institute, Longstaff was the technical director at the Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. He completed a PhD in 1991 at the University of California, Davis in software environments Host: Dr. Alan T. Sherman (mailto:sherman () umbc edu) Director, UMBC Center for Information Security and Assurance, http://cisa.umbc.edu. Directions: http://cisa.umbc.edu/map/, park in metered spots in lot 10. ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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