9/30/09 – Sandia representatives present Science-based Cyber Security
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Sandia employees and former SIG-SECers Jason Trent and Will Atkins will be in town for our next meeting so make sure to swing by for an excellent presentation and a chance to talk with Sandia employees about employment opportunities.
Traditional cyber security typically focuses on best practices, intrusion detection, and penetration testing. As cyber security becomes more critical, a more appropriate approach may be to focus on measurable security enhancements that can be derived using scientific approaches. Transitioning to quantifiable and certifiable cyber security is extremely challenging. This talk will discuss several primary problems that must be overcome to make this transition and some of the work being done at Sandia in this area.
Jason Trent has been a Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories since 2006. He works in Sandia’s Critical Infrastructure Systems Department, where he conducts research and red teaming exercises. Jason’s primary role focuses on systems software development and assessment, low-level hardware/software interaction, malware analysis and reverse engineering. Jason received his Bachelors of Science degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering in 2004 and his Masters in Computer Science in 2006 each from the University of Missouri-Rolla, now the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
William D. Atkins joined Sandia National Laboratories as an intern in 2005 and later as a Member of Technical Staff in 2007. He works in Sandia’s Critical Infrastructure Systems Department, where he conducts research and red teaming exercises to secure critical information and control systems against attack. Atkins received both Masters and Bachelors of Science degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, now the Missouri University of Science and Technology, in 2007 and 2005, respectively. His interests include wireless networks and communications, control systems communications architectures, embedded systems design, and reverse engineering.


