Speaker:

Bill Cheswick

Title of the presentation:

Internet Attacks, the Gory Details

Abstract

Ches will look at a variety of Internet attacks, past and present, at a technical level. He will examine various Internet arms races, various attacks, and some of the solutions.

Required knowledge

A fluency in English, and an interest in the technical details of the Internet should suffice. Some network and system administration experience would be helpful.

About the speaker

Bill Cheswick - or just Ches - is a well respected expert in the area of Internet security. Ches is also running the Internet mapping project, and associated basic research. Ches is also the author of the book Firewalls and Internet Security

Ches is now in a spinoff company of Lucent/Bell Labs called Lumeta (see http://www.lumeta.com) This spinoff offers new kinds of commercial intranet topological and perimeter verification services based on the Internet mapping project started at the Labs in 1997.

Slides from the presentation:

Can be found here

Online webcast:

Can be found at http://linuxforum.mmmanager.net