When: Thursday, May 08, 12:00 p.m.

Where: Distributed Education Center
Lobby LevelCollaborative Innovation Center

Carl Landwehr, Program Leader
National Intelligence Community
Information Assurance Research
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)

CyLab Seminar

Abstract:
Today's information systems and networks have been extraordinarily successful in bringing new capabilities to homes, businesses, schools, and governments. But society's eagerness to gain these capabilities at the lowest possible initial cost has led to systems that are vulnerable to a variety of attacks and provide relatively poor accountability for the information flowing through them. This talk will describe the background, motivation, and the current projects in a program of research that aims to improve both the defensibility of large scale systems and the accountability of the information flowing through them.

The technologies involved cover a broad range, from techniques that support tying a computation to a particular silicon chip to assuring that routers are configured in accordance with specified policies to detecting and remediating memory corruption attacks to renewing the Internet. The talk will close with some speculation on how we might teach ourselves to build strong, extensible systems in the future.

Carl Landwehr
is Program Leader for National Intelligence Community Information Assurance Research at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), on assignment from his position as Senior Research Scientist at the University of Maryland’s Institute for Systems Research. His IARPA programs aim for dramatic improvements in the overall trustworthiness of National Intelligence Community systems by focusing on accountable information flow, including technologies for privacy protection, and large scale system defense. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine. For many years he led a research group in Computer Security at the Naval Research Laboratory. Since then he has served as a Senior Fellow at Mitretek Systems (now Noblis), as the first Program Director for the National Science Foundations programs in Trusted Computing and cyber Trust. He has been active internationally as the founding chair of IFIP WG 11.3 (Database and Application Security) and is also a member of IFIP WG 10.4 (Dependability and Fault Tolerance). Dr. Landwehr has received Best Paper awards from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and the Computer Security Applications Conference. IFIP has awarded him its Silver Core, and the IEEE Computer Society has awarded him its Golden Core. His research interests span many aspects of trustworthy computing, including high assurance software development, understanding software flaws and vulnerabilities, token-based authentication, system evaluation and certification methods, multilevel security, and architectures for intrusion tolerant systems.

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