DATE: Saturday, 11 October 2003
8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
LOCATION: Alumni Auditorium
Champlain College
Burlington, VT
(Campus Map | Directions)
DESCRIPTION: E-Warfare
Gal Shpantzer, George Washington University
Paul Thompson, Dartmouth College’s Institute for Security Technology Studies
Most system administrators have a defender's mindset. This course will help you learn to think offensively as well as defensively. As you learn to attack, you will be better able to defend. E-Warfare is not for everyone; this high-information-flow, workshop-style course demands interaction and willingness to work on in-class exercises. This is not technical training, yet it is best suited to students with a foundation in intrusion detection and hacker exploits. Managers will also benefit from this training, as it provides case studies and real world examples of how to protect your brand reputation, intellectual property and sensitive information. Diligent students will master fundamental principles of information warfare that are illustrated with exercises, dozens of news articles, and pragmatic techniques. The instructors bring to the course diverse backgrounds that will enable the student to quickly absorb complex theories and concepts. If you are looking for the big picture view of information warfare and its application to business, then this is the course for you!
- Lessons from 9/11
- Lessons from Operation Iraqi Freedom
- "Embedded Reporting" and IW
- E-business Attack Targeting
- Threat Driven Defenses
- Intrusions, Viruses to Harm Targets
- Perception Management
- Hacking the FAA
- Hacking the Presidential Election
- Trojans in Y2K code Remediation
- Cyber Attack Measures of Effectiveness
- Value of Information
- Intellectual Property Protection
- Information Warfare Theory
- The OODA Loop: Using Cycle Time as a Weapon
- Defensive Dominance
- Contingency Planning
- Continuity of Operations
- Detect Strategies
- Swarming
- Sensor Fusion and Situational Awareness
- National Infrastructure and Response
- Topoff 2 simulation results
- Insider Threats
- Insider Methods
- Insider Detection and Response
- Indications and Warnings
- Readiness Self Assessment
- Dominant Information Trends
- Cognitive Hacking
Paul Thompson received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986. His graduate research was on probabilistic information retrieval. From 1986-1988, he was an assistant professor at Drexel University's College of Information Studies. Subsequently, from 1988-1993, he was a member of PRC, Inc.'s artificial intelligence development group, where he conducted research in natural language understanding and information retrieval. Then from 1993 until 2001, he worked for West Publishing Company, later West Group, where his research involved natural language understanding, information retrieval, and machine learning / text categorization. Since joining Dartmouth College’s Institute for Security Technology Studies in 2001, he has continued his earlier research and is also working in the areas of cognitive hacking and the application of Semantic Web technology to sensor networks.
Gal Shpantzer is an information security consultant in the DC area. He co-edits the popular SANS Newsbites newsletter and is a student in the Master's program in Information Security Management at the George Washington University. His research interests include information warfare, protection of intellectual property, wireless security, human interactive proofs, and anti-collusions/traitor-tracing.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: There will be a $30 fee for this course. The fee is being used to offset the costs of instructor travel and lodging, handout materials, and morning and afternoon drinks and snacks. Lunch is not included in the fee! We will have a 75-minute lunch break and are a leisurely 10 minute walk to downtown Burlington.
Due to space limitations and to collect the registration fee, RSVPs are essential; please use one of the following methods:
- Register at http://www.champlain.edu/corporate/vitc/event_reg.php or
- Call Jane Faust at VITC at 802-865-6402 or
- Send an e-mail to kumquat@sover.net with your name, title, organization, address, phone number, e-mail address, and payment information. Use of PGP is encouraged (my PGP public key can be found at http://www.garykessler.net/kumquat_pubkey.html)
The Vermont InfraGard chapter acknowledges, with appreciation, the facility and material support of Champlain College and the logistics support of the Vermont Information Technology Center.