TechTalks Event
Securing the Network: Emerging Technologies
with guest expert Jeff Schiller
October 4, 2001
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Security of all kinds, including network security, became a higher priority in recent weeks. Jeff, Howard, and Judith discussed what kinds of emerging technologies can help you keep your networks and information secure by answering such questions as: Do different kinds of networks present different threats? What new technologies is there that will help secure our networks? What do you need to do to detect attacks on your network? Is there anything new in risk assessment and management? Are there threats from terrorists that we should be concerned about? What do we do about them? What is the role of University policies on network security? What about policies implemented in software?
Guest Expert
Jeff
Schiller received his Bachelor or Science in Electrical Engineering
(1979) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As MIT Network
Manager he has managed the MIT Campus Computer Network since its
inception in 1984. Prior to his work in the Network Group he maintained
MIT's Multics timesharing system during the time-frame of the ArpaNet
TCP/IP conversion. He is an author of MIT's Kerberos Authentication
system. Jeff is the Internet Engineering Steering Group's (IESG)
Area Director for Security. He is responsible for overseeing security
related Working Groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
He was responsible for releasing a U.S. legal freeware version of
the popular PGP encryption program.
Jeff is also responsible for the development and deployment of an X.509 based Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) at MIT. He also is the technical lead for the new Higher Education Certifying Authority being operated by CREN) Corporation for Research and Educational Networking.
He is also a founding member of the Steering Group of the New England Academic and Research Network (NEARnet). NEARnet, now part of Genuity, is a major nationwide Internet Service Provider. Learn more about Jeff Schiller here.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss (above, left), Manager of Academic Applications
at Princeton University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.
Judith Boettcher is the Executive Director of CREN.
Together, Howard and Judith will ask the really tough questions—and relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.
Background & Resources
The best background for full appreciation of a CREN Tech Talk is often to listen to (or read the transcript of) a previous Tech Talk on a related topic. Available for you in our archives are the following:
- On May 3, 2001 our Tech Talk was Pandora's Box: Firewalls and Campus Security with guest experts Randy Marchany of Virginia Tech and Clair W. Goldsmith of the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
- On February 22, 2001 our discussion was Web Access Management/Security with guest expert Phil Schacter of the Burton Group.
- Earlier, on November 2, 2000 we hosted The
Top Ten User Mistakes that Make Security Tough! with guest
expert Mark Bruhn, of Indiana University.
And, of course, there are more.
He recommends SecurityFocus as a good Web location for breaking security information, especially with regard to vulnerabilities.
Who do you trust? By David Berlind is a good summary of some of the more important 50,000-foot view network security issues as of late 2001.
A couple of MIT policy documents of interest are:
This, the COAST Hot List at Purdue may be "the most complete archive of security-related links on the Internet."Judith shares New Public Network: Network Security's Not-So-Secret Ingredients from Network Magazine and reminds us that the Internet2 Security Working Group has extensive, useful resources available.
And, of course, no list of resources touches all the bases without mentioning the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at Carnegie Mellon.
