ABSTRACT

Security engineers and black hat attackers continually play a game of point-counterpoint when it comes to commercial/open-source security systems. Black hat attackers continually develop methods to evade or bypass defense systems while defense system developers/researcher and system administrators continually counteract these methods with patches and new releases. In this seminar, case studies from the history of this arms race are reviewed before exploring if the best defense can be to attack.

BIOGRAPHY

Nur Zincir-Heywood is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Ege University in 1998. Before joining to Dalhousie in 2000, she worked as an Assistant Professor at Ege and was an instructor at Internet Society’s Network Technology Workshops (1997-2001). Her research interests include network management, computer security and network based information systems.