Monday, February 9, 1998
4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
EECS Colloquium
Abstract
Most of us have experienced the minor irritations of packet flooding attacks on our networks, password sniffers and other irritants. But suppose that somebody wanted to do serious damage to the information infrastructure of the entire country. This would affect not just the computer network but also our banking, communication, electrical power distribution, water and sewage systems. All of these are vulnerable because of their interconnection and because they are all increasingly run by computers running vulnerable system software communicating over networks which can be all too easily compromised.
The speaker spent three years at DARPA, formulating and launching a broad research program whose goal was to develop an overall architecture and the individual components necessary for building system capable of surviving such information attacks.
In the talk I'll describe why I came to believe that the architecture of a Survivable Information Infrastructre should draw on lessons from biological and social systems and that the traditional understanding of computer security is largely irrelevant. I will describe the range of technologies being pursued in the research program, promising approaches, and other important problems which remain wide open.
I will also touch on how DARPA creates research initiatives.
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