Workshop Keynote Speaker
Dr. Carl E. Landwehr

Program Manager - Information Assurance Research, Advanced Research and Development Activity

 

Senior Research Scientist, University of Maryland

Accountable Information Flow and Large Scale System Defense: A Call for New Ideas

 

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Abstract

Our systems are under daily attack, and many of these attacks succeed. This talk will describe some of the reasons why things are the way they are and how they might be different. New research thrusts on Accountable Information Flow and Large Scale System Defense will be presented.

Biography

Carl Landwehr is Program Manager for Information Assurance Research at the Advanced Research and Development Activity (soon to be Disruptive Technology Office, under the Director of National Intelligence). He is on assignment from his position as Senior Research Scientist at the University of Maryland's Institute for Systems Research. He recently completed an assignment of almost four years with the National Science Foundation as coordinator of the Cyber Trust theme in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, which funded more than 100 research projects in the general area of cyber security with a total value of over $75M. Prior to this, he was the initial Program Director for the Trusted Computing program at NSF, while serving as Senior Fellow at Mitretek Systems. At Mitretek he led support for several DARPA programs in Information Assurance and Survivability. For many years, he headed the Computer Security Section of the Center for High Assurance Computer Systems at the Naval Research Laboratory, where he led a variety of research projects to advance technologies of computer security and high-assurance systems.

He was the founding chair of IFIP WG 11.3 (Database and Application Security) and is also a member of IFIP WG 10.4 (Dependability and Fault Tolerance). Dr. Landwehr has received Best Paper awards from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and the Computer Security Applications Conference. IFIP has awarded him its Silver Core, and the IEEE Computer Society has awarded him its Golden Core. He has also served on the computer science faculty at Purdue University, and he has taught courses on topics in computer science and information security at Georgetown, the University of Maryland, and Virginia Tech.

His research interests span many aspects of trustworthy computing, including high assurance software development, understanding software flaws and vulnerabilities, token-based authentication, system evaluation and certification methods, multilevel security, and architectures for intrusion tolerant systems.
For more information:  http://www.isr.umd.edu/ISR/faculty/FacultyBios/Landwehr_bio.html