Fwd: security theater seminar - sunday 23/12

[Yossef Oren]

This Sunday at Labs 146 14:00 (usual place, usual time)

See you,

Yossi.

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Title:
Crypto for the Public Cloud
 
Abstract:
The cloud presents a huge opportunity for modern businesses to reduce cost and complexity -- but doing so at the cost of reduced security is a non-starter for many organizations. Those responsible for security oversight within their organizations lose sleep over the security of critical data. What if some unforeseen problem with someone else's applications or controls exposes all of this sensitive information sitting in the cloud? In traditional security models, encryption solved most of these data security worries, but the cloud has introduced new challenges and problems with this approach. Fortunately, several novel technical approaches are evolving to alleviate many of these traditional, limited approaches, and in the long-term, make the cloud a more secure model for both software and data.
 
Speaker Bio:
 
John Viega is Executive Vice President of Products, Strategy and Engineering at Perimeter E-Security.  John has authored numerous books on security, including the recent "Myths of Security", "The Secure Programming Cookbook", "Network Security with OpenSSL" and the seminal "Building Secure Software", which was the first book on application security. He is also well-known for being the original author of the Mailman mailing list manager, and other prominent open source software packages.  John is the editor-in-chief for IEEE Security and Privacy magazine, and his technical work in cryptography has been standardized by NIST, the IEEE and IETF.  John holds a MS in Computer Science and a BA from the University of Virginia.
 
Presented at the 2012 Hack In The Box Security Conference, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, October 9, 2012
 
http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2012kul/john-viega/

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