Concordia Hosts Information Systems Security Colloquium

The Computer Security Laboratory at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) hosted the 3rd Annual Information Systems Security Colloquium on Tuesday, May 4, 2010.

This year the event was also co-sponsored by the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA Canada). The theme of this year's event was Botnets: Detection, Analysis and Prevention. This year's Organizing Committee, comprised of Francois Cosquer, Alcatel Lucent and Adjunct Professor within CIISE, Lynne Perrault, Director NCFTA Canada and Forensic Investigator, Competition Bureau, Benjamin Fung, Mourad Debbabi, Lingyu Wang, Amr Youssef, and Bo Zhu, all faculty members within CIISE, invited leading Botnet Security experts from industry, government and academia to share their knowledge and insight on this important topic.

The Institute's Director Mourad Debbabi, gave the opening remarks to approximately 90 attendees from industry, government and academia. The Colloquium began with a talk by Patrick Traynor from the Georgia Institute of Technology on the "Disruptive Potential of Malware in Cellular Networks." Then, the Acting Director of Capability Development for Public Safety Canada's National Cyber Security Directorate, Adam Hatfield, delivered a talk entitled "Cyber Security: A Strategic Perspective for Canada."

The afternoon session featured a talk by Andrew L. Vallerand, Director, Science & Technology Public Security, from the Center for Security Sciences, Canadian National Defence on "Whole of Government e-Security." Wenke Lee from the Georgia Institute of Technology then spoke about "Invariants of Botnets." Thomas B. Reddington from Bell Labs, gave a talk entitled "Did you know that your network is showing?" Finally, Arbor Networks', Jose Nazario, wrapped up the colloquium with a talk entitled "Tracking Rogue Networks".

Closing remarks were presented by Lynne Perrault, the Director of NCFTA Canada, who was very pleased to see the great interest that this year's Colloquium had sparked.

Please visit the CIISE website for more information on the colloquium, as well as detailed abstracts for each talk.