BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY: Becoming paranoid or\, How I learned to start worrying and fear t he Internet - George Neville-Neil DTSTART:20061024T151500Z DTEND:20061024T161500Z UID:TALK5378@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Saar Drimer DESCRIPTION:While traditional research and development in security continu es to focus on algorithms and protocols for securing data privacy during s torage and transmission\, another battle is being waged that is far more b road. Many of the problems in building secure systems come not from design ing cryptographic systems\, but in building whole systems so that they avo id common errors. Input validation\, protocol design\, and good clean code are far and away the more important issues to the majority of people buil ding systems today. It is not the brilliant basement hacker who finds most of the holes\, but the casual script kiddie and others with far less spec ialized skills.\n\nThis presentation will give an overview of the security landscape as it appears from inside a large Internet company along with m any specific cases of the kinds of security issues that are found on a day to day basis. The goal is to make people truly paranoid.\n\nSpeaker:\n\nG eorge Neville-Neil is a member of the application security team of a large Internet company with responsbilities that include system review\, securi ty tool authoring\, and teaching about secure and fail safe programming. H e has taught at development centers in Silicon Valley\, Asia and Europe an d routinely makes tours of international development centers to teach and address security concerns. He is the co-author of The Design and Implement ation of the FreeBSD Operating System as well as a columnist for ACM Queue Magazine\, where he writes under the name Kode Vicious. Mr. Neville-Neil' s research interests include Networking\, Operating Systems and Security. He currently makes his home in Tokyo Japan.\n\nSlides\n LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR