Presented at
Black Hat USA 1999,
July 7, 1999, 9:40 a.m.
(40 minutes)
As a security guy who has travelled a bit, I've come to agree with a former counter espionage agent that "this security stuff is all the same." From a security viewpoint, there is little new about the Internet. The same security rules apply to the Internet, castles, walls, and even the immune system. We will explore a number of security lessons from many sources.
Presenters:
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William R. Cheswick
- Author, Firewalls and Internet Security : Repelling the Wily Hacker.
Bill Cheswick logged into his first computer in 1969. Six years later, he was graduated from Lehigh University with a degree that looked like Computer Science.
Cheswick has worked on (and against) operating system security for nearly 30 years. He contracted for several years at Lehigh and the Naval Air Development Center working on systems programming and communications. In 1978 he worked at the American Newspaper Publishers Association/Research Institute, where he shared a patent for a hardware-based spelling checker, a device clearly after its time.
For the next nine years he worked for Systems and Computer Technology Corporation at a variety of universities including Temple University, LaSalle College, Harvard Business School, Manhattan College, NJIT, and several others. Duties included system management, consulting,software development, communications design and installation, PC evaluations, etc.
In 1987 (Morris minus 1) he joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of the Technical Staff. Since then he has worked on firewalls, network security, PC viruses, mailers, interactive science exhibits, and trash-picking in the physics building. He co-authored the first full book on Internet security in 1994, and has since toured the world giving talks and supplying the media with sound bites. Infoweek called him "the sweet but feral hacker-in-residence at Bell Labs."
Ches continues as a science guy at Bell Labs. He latest work includes a new edition of his book and long-term mapping of the Internet, which is producing some really smashing posters. In his spare time he launches rockets with his wife, tries to fly RC aircraft, and automates his home (his doorbell announces visitors, his mailbox announces real mail, and his phone announces callers.)
Ches's favorite part of Las Vegas is the Hoover Dam.
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