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Thursday March 6th, 2008 |
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7:30 am - 9:15 am |
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Fairmont Château Laurier Hotel
Québec Room – First Floor
Rideau Street |
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Online Registration
Early Registration (received by OCRI no later than 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, 2008)
$45.00 - OCRI members (plus 5% GST)
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$90.00 Non-members (plus 5% GST)
Late / On-Site Registration
$55.00 - OCRI members (plus 5% GST)
$100.00 - Non-members (plus 5% GST) |
The Ottawa Security Cluster in partnership with OCRI are pleased to present an interactive presentation by Ed Amoroso, AT&T Chief Security Officer.
This talk will outline AT&T's revolutionary advances in virtualized security protections in an IP carrier infrastructure. Examples will demonstrate how signature and profile-based algorithms can be combined with carrier network management systems to detect security attacks as they materialize.
Special attention will be placed on showing how an IP carrier can detect and stop distributed denial of service attacks by vigilant monitoring and fast routing action. The talk will also explain how traditional perimeter controls such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems are now being virtualized into the cloud. Brian O’Higgins, CTO, Third Brigade will moderate this session.
Speaker Bio's
Ed Amoroso, Chief Information Security Officer, AT&T Inc.
Ed Amoroso currently serves as Chief Information Security Officer for AT&T Inc., a position he has held since 1999. His twenty-year career at AT&T has been focused exclusively on information and network security, with a particular focus on security programs with AT&T's federal government clients. Ed helped build the first secure UNIX operating system at Bell Labs; he was also the lead for trusted software security development on the Strategic Defense Initiative; in addition, Ed had lead responsibility for real time security protection of the White House Y2K Information Coordination Center.
Ed is currently responsible for real-time protection of AT&T's vast network infrastructure and business enterprise environment. This includes responsibility for security architecture, real time incident response, security patch management, anti-virus processing, Sarbanes-Oxley security compliance, security policy requirements and enforcement, public key infrastructure, intrusion detection, and other related security activities. Ed's team is also responsible for designing, building, and supporting all of AT&T's award-winning managed and professional security services, including Network-Based Security, Internet Protect, and DDOS Defense. These services will form the basis for AT&T’s mass market security offer for broadband and IPTV customers.
Ed is the author of three textbooks and dozens of articles on information security. He is the 1999 winner of the AT&T Labs Technology Medal, the 2005 Luminary Leadership Award from the Executive Alliance, and a Security Seven Winner for 2005 from Information Security Magazine. He has served proudly as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology for the past fifteen years. Ed holds the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Stevens Institute of Technology, as well as the BS degree in Physics from Dickinson College. He is a 2000 graduate of the Columbia Senior Executive Program; his work has been prominently featured in several major media outlets including the Wall Street Journal.
Moderator Bio:
Brian O'Higgins, CTO, Third Brigade
Brian O’Higgins is a seasoned professional in the security industry, and is best known for his role in introducing PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) technology and products to the security landscape. He is also a recognized speaker on IT and Internet security.
Prior to joining Third Brigade, Brian was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Entrust, a leading Internet Security company. While at Entrust, he had overall responsibility for the technology vision and direction for the company. He was previously with Nortel where he established the Secure Networks group in 1993 and was instrumental in spinning-out this group as an independent company, Entrust. Prior to this, Brian was with Bell-Northern Research (BNR) where he was involved in a variety of technology development programs including public key security systems, technology for new telephone products, in-building wireless communications systems and high-performance computing architectures for digital telephone switches.
Brian’s current list of affiliations includes advisory board positions with Defence R&D Canada, Information Technology Association of Canada, Communications and Information Technology Ontario, Algonquin College and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. In addition, he currently serves on the boards of Recognia and Fischer International.
