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Program

Texas Workshop on Security of
Information Systems

Wednesday, April 2, 2003
College Station, Texas

College Station Hilton Conference Center
College Station, Texas

7:30 - 8:15 am Registration and Continental Breakfast - Ballrom IV
8:15 am Introduction and Welcome - Ballroom IV
Dr. Richard E. Ewing; Vice President for Research, Texas A&M University
8:30 - 9:30 am Keynote Address: "Information Assurance, Critical Infrastructure Protection, the U.S. Government, and YOU" - Ballrom IV
Dr. Douglas Maughan; Program Manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Department of Defense
9:30 - 9:45 am Break
9:45 - 10:45 am Panel Session 1: Challenges in Information Security - Ballroom IV
Moderator: Mr. Willis Marti
  • Joe Head, Intrusion, Inc.
  • Jane Curlee, ExxonMobil
  • Gregory White, University of Texas-San Antonio and Air Force Information Warface Center
10:45 am - 12:15 pm Paper Session 1: Security Framework and Modeling - Ballroom IV
Chair: Dr. J. C. "Steve" Liu 		Paper Session 2: System and Data Protection - Ballroom V & VI
Chair: Mr. Cameron Orr
  • "Pervasively Secure Infrastructures (PSI) through Community Computing" - M. Kumar, B. Shirazi, S. Das; University of Texas at Arlington
  • "Network Elements Based on Partial State" - N. Reddy, R. Bettati, M. Vannucci, and S. Darbha; Texas A&M University
  • "Methods To Tackle Vulnerabilities Caused By Lack of Mutual Exclusion" - B. Goyal, N. Mittal, S. Sitaraman, and S. Venkatesan; University of Texas at Dallas
  • "m-TINMAN: An Architecture for Resource Bound Security" - A. Mok; University of Texas at Austin
  • "NetCamo: Camouflaging Network Traffic for Real-Time Applications" - X. Fu, B. Graham, R. Bettati, and W. Zhao; Texas A&M University
  • "Practical Internet Steganography: Data Hiding in IP" - D. Kundur; Texas A&M University
  • "Timing Analysis and System Security" - R. Bettati, N. Reddy, M. Vannucci, S. Darbha; Texas A&M University
  • "Application Licensing Using Mobile Agents" - N. Chakravarthy, F. A. Kamangar; University of Texas Arlington
12:15 - 1:30 pm Luncheon and talk: "Current Threats - Current Solutions" - Ballroom III
Dr. Paul K. Carlton; Director, Texas A&M Integrated Center for Homeland Security


*Luncheon sponsored by the Center for Management of Information Systems, Dr. George C. Fowler, Director, Lowry Mays College of Business, Texas A&M University
1:45 - 3:15 pm Panel Session 2: Security Challenges in Business - Ballroom IV
Moderator: Dr. Evan Anderson 		Tutorial Session 1: Introduction to Computer Security - Ballroom V & VI
Instructor: Ms. Ellen Mitchell, Chief Security Analyst, Texas A&M Univeristy
  • "Defining Information Security Requirements," John Kirby, Electronic Data Systems
  • "Metrics, Measurements, and Competing Methodologies," William MacGregor, Schlumberger
  • "Secure Information Sharing for Distance Collaboration," J. C. "Steve" Liu; Texas A&M University
  • "Private Sector/Law Enforcement Cooperation: Planning, Protocols, Reporting and Forensics," Thomas Bello, HiTECH Task Force, United States Secret Service
  • "The Management of Information Security in Private Sector Organizations: Research Questions and Directions," Evan Anderson, J. Choobineh, and M. Grimaila, Texas A&M University

COVERAGE: This tutorial will give an overview of security strategies, process policies of security, management of log files, damage control of compromised systems, DOS attacks, and countermeasures.

TARGET AUDIENCE: Computer system managers and developers, faculty and graduate students in the IT field
3:15 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 5:00 pm Industry Forum - Ballroom IV
Moderator: Dr. Douglas Maughan 		Tutorial Session 2: Introduction to Computer Security, continued - Ballroom V & VI
Instructor: Ms. Ellen Mitchell
Panelists: Tim Dwight - Marconi
Johannes Helander - Microsoft
Tim Bashara - Raytheon
Andrew Wright - Cisco Systems
5:00 - 5:10 pm Final Remarks - Ballrom IV
Dr. Wei Zhao

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Sponsored by

Center for Information Assurance and Security
Texas A&M University

Texas Telecommunications Engineering Consortium (TxTEC)