Keynote and Invited Talks


Bill Cheswick
(Tentative) Date: Tue, Sep. 6, 2005
Time: 9.00AM - 9.45AM
Title: Pondering and Patrolling Network Perimeters

Abstract:
Most Internet users rely on perimeter protection as part of their Internet defenses. How well are these working, and what lies behind perimeter defenses? Telephone networks have their intelligence in the center of the net, and internets at the edge. The talk will describe technologies that help scope out the extent of intranets, and find perimeter breaks.

Speaker Biography:
Bill "Ches" Cheswick is Chief Scientist for Lumeta. Cheswick has worked over 30 years on operating system security, including 13 years at Lucent/Bell labs where he began his now famous Internet Mapping Project. An internationally recognized expert on security, he co-wrote the highly-regarded "Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker" (Addison-Wesley). Cheswick is invited to speak at technical conferences and symposiums worldwide. In 2002, he was a delegate to NATO in Warsaw, Poland, and is a member of Counterpane's technical advisory board. InfoWorld magazine recently named Cheswick a 2004 Technology Innovator for his breakthrough work in network leak detection.

Dr. Andrea Servida
(Tentative) Date: Tue, Sep. 6, 2005
Time: 9.45AM - 10.30AM
Title: Security, privacy and dependability in Information Society: key challenges for European R&D in FP7

Speaker Biography:
Dr. Servida joined the European Commission in 1993 and is now Deputy Head of the Unit "ICT for Trust and Security" in Information Society and Media Directorate-General. His main duties are planning, implementing and managing the R&D programme on security and dependability technologies and applications in areas like identification, authentication, secure protocols, encryption, privacy enhancing technologies and, more in general, trust in digital transactions. He also contributes to the Commission policy-making and standardisation activities in biometrics, electronic signature, privacy & data protection and cyber-crime. In the 5th Framework Programme, he was in charge of shaping up and co-ordinating at the Programme level the initiative on dependability in Information Society, including the preparation and management of related Cross Programme Actions calls for proposals and evaluation. This initiative focussed on large scale information infrastructures and on extensively deployed networked embedded systems and set the way for the development of interests of the Directorate General Information Society in critical infrastructure protection. For the preparation of this initiative, he organised and managed the institutional collaboration on dependability with the JRC and other Directorates General. Before joining the Commission he worked in industry for nearly eight years as a project manager of a number of international R&D projects on decision support systems for environmental, civil and industrial emergency and risk management. He graduated with Laude in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and carried out PhD studies on fuzzy sets and artificial intelligence at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

Prof. Jean Pierre-Hubaux
(Tentative) Date: Wed, Sep. 7, 2005
Time: 8.30AM - 9.15AM
Title: The Security of Vehicular Networks

Speaker Biography:
Dr. Jean-Pierre Hubaux joined the faculty of EPFL in 1990; he was promoted to full professor in 1996. His research activity is focused on mobile networking and computing, with a special interest in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. In particular, he has performed research on security, cooperation, power efficiency, and distributed algorithms in ad hoc and sensor networks; he has co-authored more than 50 papers in this field. During the last few years, he has been strongly involved in the definition and launching phases of a new National Competence Center in Research named "Mobile Information and Communication Systems" (NCCR/MICS), see http://www.terminodes.org. From October 1999 until September 2001, he was the first chairman of the Communication Systems Department.

He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, of Foundations and Trends in Networking and of the Journal on Ad Hoc Networks. He served as the general chair for the Third ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2002), held on the EPFL campus. He has been serving on the program committees of numerous conferences and workshops, including Infocom, Mobicom, Mobihoc, SenSys, WiSe and VANET.

He has held visiting positions at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and at the University of California at Berkeley.

He was born in Belgium, but spent most of his childhood and youth in Northern Italy. After completing his studies in electrical engineering at Politecnico di Milano, he spent 10 years in France with Alcatel, where he was involved in R&D activities, primarily in the area of switching systems architecture and software.

For more information, please check his website.


Prof. David Wagner
(Tentative) Date: Tue, Sep. 6, 2005,
Time: 2:00PM - 2.45PM
Title: Privacy in pervasive computing: What can technologists do?

Speaker Biography:
Dr. David Wagner is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California at Berkeley with extensive experience in computer security and cryptography. He and his Berkeley colleagues are known for discovering a wide variety of security vulnerabilities in various cellphone standards, 802.11 wireless networks, and other widely deployed systems. In addition, David was a co-designer of one of the Advanced Encryption Standard candidates, and he remains active in the areas of systems security, cryptography, and privacy.

David is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and a past CRA Digital Government Fellow. He received an Honorable Mention in the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition for his Ph.D. work. More information is available at www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw.

Prof. William Arbaugh
(Tentative) Date: Wed, Sep. 7, 2005
Time: 2:00PM - 2.45PM
Title: Ad-hoc network security: is it a real problem?

Speaker Biography: William Arbaugh joined the Computer Science department at Maryland after spending sixteen years with the U.S.Defense Department first as a commissioned officer in the Army and then as a civilian at the National Security Agency. During the sixteen years, Prof. Arbaugh served in several leadership positions in diverse areas ranging from tactical communications to advanced research in information security and networking. In his last position, Prof. Arbaugh served as a senior technical advisor in an office of several hundred computer scientists, engineers, and mathematicians conducting advanced networking research and engineering. Prof. Arbaugh received a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point, a M.S. in computer science from Columbia University in New York City, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Prof. Arbaugh's research interests include information systems security and privacy with a focus on wireless networking, embedded systems, and configuration management. Prof. Arbaugh is a member of DARPA's Information Science And Technology study group, and he also currently serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE Computer, and the IEEE Security and Privacy magazines. He has also co-authored a book with Jon Edney on Wi-Fi security that is published by Addison-Wesley.
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