Arbor Networks Founder Dr. Rob Malan to Speak at the Department of Homeland Security Forum.Arbor arbor Garden shelter providing privacy and partial protection from the weather, most commonly a lightweight, latticed framework (trellis) of wood or metal with interlaced branches of vines or climbing shrubs trained over it. Networks
WHAT: Talk entitled: "Protecting the Most Critical Networks from
Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks and Worms"
WHO: Dr. G. Robert Malan, Founder, Chief Technology Officer and
Vice President of Product Management, Arbor Networks
Dr. Malan brings over ten years of research experience in
computer networking and security to Arbor Networks. Malan,
whose thesis work at the University of Michigan formed the
basis for Arbor Networks' technology, is the author of the
company's patents. He has successfully transitioned technology
from research prototype to product during his tenure in
industry, which includes work at the IBM T.J. Watson Research
Laboratory and Hewlett-Packard. Malan began his networking
career working as a researcher on the Mach operating system
project at Carnegie Mellon. He has authored 18 papers
published in top-tier computer security and networking
journals and conference proceedings. Rob holds a Ph.D. and MSE
in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and a B.S.
in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
WHEN: Thursday, April 14, 2005
9:00-9:30 a.m. EDT
WHERE: Department of Homeland Security Emerging Security Technology
Conference
SRI International
1100 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA
http://www.hsarpacyber.com/forum.html
The purpose of the Security Forum is to identify technology
solutions from the private sector that can help protect
critical government cyber infrastructure from future attacks.
Various agencies in attendance at the Forum have needs which
are being unfilled by today's commercial security offerings.
By connecting participating vendors with potential government
customers, the Forum intends to provide participating vendors
a springboard into a wider commercial market. Speaking at the
DHS conference is by invitation-only.
WHY: Government agencies can save millions of dollars in downtime
due to the disruption and clean-up of worms, operational and
engineering costs and denial of service attacks and
distributed denial of service attacks.
ABOUT ARBOR NETWORKS Arbor Networks ensures the security and operational integrity of the world's most critical networks. Arbor's solutions are based on the proven Peakflow platform, intelligent technology for network-wide data collection, analysis, anomaly detection An approach to intrusion detection that establishes a baseline model of behavior for users and components in a computer system or network. Deviations from the baseline cause alerts that direct the attention of human operators to the anomalies. See IDS and anomaly. , and threat mitigation MITIGATION. To make less rigorous or penal. 2. Crimes are frequently committed under circumstances which are not justifiable nor excusable, yet they show that the offender has been greatly tempted; as, for example, when a starving man steals bread to satisfy . Peakflow provides real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. views of network activity enabling organizations to instantly protect against worms Worms (vôrms), city (1994 pop. 79,155), Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany, on the Rhine River. It is an industrial city and a leading wine trade center. , DDoS attacks, insider misuse, and traffic and routing instability instability /in·sta·bil·i·ty/ (-stah-bil´i-te) lack of steadiness or stability. detrusor instability as well as segment and harden hard·en v. hard·ened, hard·en·ing, hard·ens v.tr. 1. To make hard or harder. 2. To enable to withstand physical or mental hardship. 3. networks from future threats. Peakflow successfully prevents costly downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. , network cleanup, and loss of customer confidence. Arbor is headquartered in Lexington, MA, with a research and development office in Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , MI and overseas headquarters in London and Beijing. |
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