BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"\;From the Casebooks of..."\; - Mark Seiden DTSTART:20080429T151500Z DTEND:20080429T161500Z UID:TALK11635@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Andrew Lewis DESCRIPTION:In a field with few design principles ("defense in depth"? sep arate duties?)\, few rules of thumb\, no laws named after people more infl uential than Murphy\, no Plancks or Avogadros to hold Constant\, and littl e quantitation of any sort (we count bad things and how long it takes to f ix them)\, it appears the best we can do right now is telling stories.\n\n Over (enough) beer we cons up lightly anonymized War Stories about late ni ght phone calls\, scary devices\, hard to find bugs (which exploiters some how found)\, the backups that didn't\, stupid criminals\, craven prosecuto rs\, cute hacks (but "don't try this at home") and pointy-haired bosses... There will be a few of these in this talk\, but also some Cautionary Tale s\, parables\, isomorphs of the Old Stories demonstrating human frailty an d that the Law of Unexpected Consequences operates most strongly near the intersection of Bleeding Edge and Slippery Slope. Also just a bit about th e future.\n\nMark Seiden\, a programmer since the '60s\, has worked since 1983 in areas of security\, network\, and software engineering for compani es world-wide. As a Yahoo Paranoid and as a consultant\, recent projects h ave included design\, architecture\, and implementation for ebusiness syst ems\, security for online financial transaction processing and for a distr ibuted document processing system\, as an expert in computer crime cases\, and testing of network\, procedural and physical security in diverse depl oyed systems\, enterprises\, and colocation facilities.\n\nTime Digital na med him one of the 50 "CyberElite" in their first annual list\, and he's b een involved with four National Academy of Sciences studies on some trippy subjects. Mark was the first registant of the domain food.com. He's bee n played by an actor in a rather bad movie. His Erdos number is 4. LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR