CS 8001 INF: Information Security Seminar
Fall 2006
Meetings
- Student & faculty series: Tuesdays 2:00–3:00 Room 1214 U A Whitaker BME
- Industry leaders series: Tuesdays 4:00–5:00 Room 5126, Centergy Building, Technology Square. Industry talks are followed by a reception.
Schedule
| Date | Time & room | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 22 | 12:00 BME 1214 | Organizational meeting |
| Aug 29 | No seminar | |
| Sep 5 | 2:00 BME 1214 | Mudhakar Srivatsa Key Derivation Algorithms for Monotone Access Structures in Cryptographic File Systems (50 minutes) John Griffin Storage System Security Overview (10 minutes) |
| Sep 12 | 2:00 BME 1214 | Guofei Gu Towards an Information-Theoretic Framework for Analyzing Intrusion Detection Systems |
| Sep 19 | 4:00 Centergy 5126 | Phyllis Schneck (Secure Computing) Electronic and Human Communication: Engaging the Private Sector in Global Critical Infrastructure Protection |
| Sep 26 | 4:00 Centergy 5126 | David Rowan (SunTrust) Perspectives on Security Management: What the Educational Community Can Do |
| Oct 3 | 2:00 BME 1214 | Bryan Payne A Layered Security Architecture (30 minutes) Arun Subbiah Design of a Distributed OTP Validation System (30 minutes) |
| Oct 10 | 4:00 Centergy 5126 | Rebecca Blalock (Southern Company) Hurricane Katrina: Business Continuity Story |
| Wed Oct 11 | 4:00 Cherry Emerson 332 | Mike Freedman (New York University) Reliable Email |
| Oct 17 | No seminar (Fall recess) | |
| Oct 24 | 2:00 BME 1214 |
Prahlad Fogla Evading Network Anomaly Detection Systems: Formal Reasoning and Practical Techniques (30 minutes) Jonathon Giffin Automated Discovery of Mimicry Attacks (30 minutes) |
| Oct 31 | 2:00 BME 1214 |
William G.J. Halfond Using Positive Tainting and Syntax-Aware Evaluation to Counter SQL Injection Attacks |
| Oct 31 | 4:00 Centergy 5126 | Tony Spinelli (Equifax) |
| Nov 7 | 2:00 BME 1214 | Adam O'Neill Efficiently Searchable Encryption: A Foundation for Secure Outsourced Databases |
| Nov 14 | 2:00 BME 1214 | Jonathon T. Giffin Strengthening Software Self-Checksumming via Self-Modifying Code |
| Thu Nov 16 | 2:00 MiRC 102A | Jon A. Solworth (University of Illinois, Chicago) KernelSec: An Authorization Model in the Operating System Kernel |
| Nov 21 | 2:00 BME 1214 |
Roberto Perdisci Using an Ensemble of One-Class SVM Classifiers to Harden Payload-based Anomaly Detection Systems |
| Nov 28 | 4:00 Centergy 5126 | Tom
Place (Coca-Cola) Director of Global Security and Compliance Managing Information Security Risks at Coca-Cola |
| Dec 5 | No seminar (Dead week) | |
To schedule a talk in an open time slot, send an email to Jon Giffin at giffin@cc.
Grading
Grading in this course is based on attendance. Students pass the course by attending 10 or more of the seminar sessions beginning September 5. The organizational meeting held on August 22 does not count towards satisfying the attendance requirement. Students failing to attend at least 10 seminars will receive an unsatisfactory grade for the course.