CS 8001 INF: Information Security Seminar
Fall 2007
Instructor
Dr. Jon Giffin
Email: giffin@cc
Phone: 4/385-1060
Office: Klaus 3140
Office hours: Tuesdays 4:00-5:00
Meetings
- Regular seminar sessions:
Tuesdays 3:00–4:00
Klaus 1116 E - Over the course of the semester, we will have several irregular seminars scheduled at other times. The schedule below shows the date, time, and room for all presentations.
- Centergy meeting location:
Centergy Building in Tech Square
75 5th St NW
5th floor - GTRI meeting location:
GTRI Conference Center
250 14th St NW - Anyone interested in computer and information security is welcome to attend the seminars even if they do not register for the course.
Mailing list
We will send weekly announcements with details of the next presentation to the security-seminar mailing list. Whether or not you register for CS 8001-INF, please add yourself to the mailing list if you are interested in our seminar series. [Subscribe]
Schedule
| Date | Time & room | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 21 | 3:00 Klaus 1116 E | Organizational meeting |
| Aug 28 | 3:00 Klaus 1116 E | Meet the faculty |
| Sep 4 | 3:00 Klaus 1116 E | Ying Xia, Georgia Tech Establishing Trust in Black-Box Programs [Abstract] Kevin Fairbanks, Georgia Tech TimeKeeper: A Metadata Archiving Method for Honeypot Forensics [Abstract] |
| Sep 11 | 3:00 Klaus 1116 E | Guofei Gu, Georgia Tech Botnet Tampering: Enhancing Command and Control Channel Detection with Active Techniques [Abstract] |
| Sep 18 | Seminar cancelled | |
| Sep 25 | 3:00 Klaus 1116 E | Monirul Sharif, Georgia Tech Eureka: A Framework for Automated Dissection of Malware [Abstract] |
| Oct 2 | 10:00 GTRI | Vinton G. Cerf, Google |
| Oct 9 | No seminar—Fall recess | |
| Oct 16 | 4:30 Centergy | Caleb Sima, SPI Dynamics |
| Oct 23 | 3:00 Klaus 1116 E | Adam O'Neill, Georgia Tech Anirudh Ramachandran, Georgia Tech |
| Oct 30 | 3:00 Klaus 1116 E | Nina Taft, Intel [Abstract] |
| Thu Nov 1 | 3:00 Klaus 1116 E | Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Nov 6 | 3:00 Klaus 1116 E | James Randall, RSA Security |
| Nov 13 | 4:30 Centergy | Anthony Rutowski, VeriSign |
| Nov 20 | 3:00 Klaus 1116 E | Frank Park, Georgia Tech Security Issues with the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) [Abstract] |
| Nov 27 | 3:00 Klaus 1116 E | Tom Karygiannis, NIST [Slides] |
| Dec 4 | 3:00 Klaus 1116 E | Jon Ramsey, SecureWorks |
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 11 or more of the seminar sessions beginning August 21. Students failing to attend at least 11 seminars will receive an unsatisfactory grade for the course.