Presented at
DEF CON 12 (2004),
Aug. 1, 2004, 3 p.m.
(50 minutes).
In a cyberworld of never ending struggles, defenders might have a new weapon in the future in order to defeat attackers. This talk will focus on those possibilities called: digital active (self) defense.
Presenters:
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Laurent Oudot
- Computer Security Engineer, Rstack
Laurent Oudot (http://rstack.org/oudot/) is a french security expert currently employed by the CEA (Commissariat Energie Atomique) which is the equivalent of the US Dept Of Energy. On his spare time, he is also a member of a security group called "Team Rstack" composed of security addicts and geeks. Laurent's research focus on defensive technologies highly closed to blackhats activities like honeypots, intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, firewalls, sandboxes, mandatory access control, etc. Laurent is the (co-)author of several research papers recently published and released on Securityfocus, Institute of Internal Auditors UK, MISC magazine and Linux Magazine France. He has presented at national and international conferences and meetings such as Cansecwest (Vancouver, 2004), Eurosec (Paris, 2004), BlackHat Asia Briefings (Singapore, 2003), Honeynet Project Meeting (Chicago, 2003), Libre Software Meeting (Metz, 2003), FOSDEM (Bruxelles, 2003), etc. He co-organized security events such as the Libre Software Meeting (co-chairman of the Security Topic with Bradley Spengler from Grsecurity, 2002), Symposium Securite des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (SSTIC 2003 and 2004), a Computer Security Summer School (2004), etc. Laurent has taught network and system security in high schools for engineers and has managed numerous security projects on the last 7 years. Recently with Nicolas Fischbach, he co-created the French Honeynet Project which is part of the international Alliance of honeynets. Now, Laurent is a member of the Steering Committee of the Honeynet Project leaded by Lance Spitzner.
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