19Feb

TIM Lecture: Web Infections and Protections (WIPP)

SCHEDULE CHANGE: To allow Paul Milkman, SVP, Head of Tech. Risk Mgmt. & Info. Security TD Bank Group, to co-present "Cybersecurity Game Changers" we have rearranged the schedule of our talks.  Please see below.
 
In the first of three TIM Lectures on cybersecurity, our speaker, Arnold Kwong, CEO of Storm Internet, Canada, and Managing Director Extratelligence, USA, will be talking about the Web Infections and Protections project, which applies biological contagion models to the existence of infectious objects spreading between computing nodes via networks and other connections.
 
Time and location
The lecture will take place on Feb 27, 2014, at 6-9pm in St. Patrick’s Building, Room SP 102. Please register below to help us plan the event.
 
Topic
Web Infections and Protections (WIPP) is a series of papers, presentations, and technical references developed by Healton, Kwong, and Lancaster (1998-onwards). The initial purpose of Web Infections and Protections was to research and discuss emerging threats against computers, networks, and infrastructure by new techniques and attack vectors not previously explored. Continuing Web Infections and Protections research explores the strategy, protocols, and futures, conduct of technical practitioners, and the behavior of the immersive environment we now live in. 
 
The Lessons from the Web Infections and Protections (WIPP) project include:
  • New infections can’t be guessed at ahead of time. The flaws in behavior and code may not be obvious even upon inspection.
  • New infection routes may be unknowable when systems and protocols are put in place
  • New infection damage is hard to find and hard to remediate.
  • Threat models are a map – they aren’t the territory.
  • Threat calculations are just that – calculations that are as good or bad as their data.
  • WIPP isn’t about the ethical behavior or morals, nor about ‘black hats and white hats’, nor about ‘hackers’ and ‘ethical hackers’. WIPP is about what, how, when, and where the behavior was manifest. WIPP examines the past and predicts the future.
Biography of Speaker
 
Arnold Kwong has over thirty years experience in management, manufacturing, and technology applications. His operational expertise and cross disciplinary outlook have been applied in planning, analysis, implementation, and problem solving settings. A strong operational emphasis on quality and risk management comes from extensive practical work. Ongoing technical expertise, with ongoing research and application publications, focus on telecommunications, security models, mobile financial applications security, complex systems integration and deployment, software modeling of enterprises, real time data collection, and advancements in computer science. 
 
His technical experiences include a core of multivendor complex systems analysis; data base/storage/data communications relationships; software design, development, and evaluation; and hardware/software architectural design and implementation issues. Areas of specific management expertise include complex product development and management, technological risk management, and regulatory compliance for organizations in both the public and private, service and manufacturing sectors. Areas of specific technical experience include application architectures; system architectures; applications and Internet security; storage/data base administration, management, and enterprise modeling; networking and data communications; and computer science research. 
 
Upcoming Lectures
Dave Harris, Director of the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences
North Carolina University
 
Charles Kennedy, CRISC, VP Credit Card Technology
Paul Milkman, SVP, Head of Tech. Risk Mgmt. & Info. Security
TD Bank Group
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