Vortrag: R. A. Kemmerer (USA) - Computer, Network, and WWW Security

[Renate Kainz]

Invitation to the talk

A look at Computer, Network, and WWW Security
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Professor Richard A. Kemmerer
Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, USA

Wednesday, March 25, 1998, 11.00 am s.t.
TU Wien, Informatik-H=F6rsaal, Treitlstra=DFe 3, 1040 Wien


Abstract:
As more business activities are being automated and an increasing number of
computers are being used to store vital and sensitive information the need
for secure computer systems becomes more apparent. This need is even more
apparent as the systems and applications are being distributed and access is
via an insecure network. Secure systems and networks can be obtained only
through systematic development; they can not be achieved through haphazard
ad hoc methods.

This talk introduces some known threats to computer security, categorizes
the threats, and analyzes protection mechanisms and techniques for
countering the threats. It also looks at network security technologies and
different approaches to secure networking, such as secure protocols,
firewalls, and the use of cryptography. It also introduces proposals for
secure web browsing; introducing known flaws and fixes, the Java sandboxing
approach, code-signing, and the use of smart cards for secure web
transactions. The talk presents both the strengths and weaknesses of each
approach.


Biography:
Richard Kemmerer, a world-renowned authority on computer security, is a
Professor and past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. He has written more than seventy
technical publications on the subjects of computer security, formal
specification and verification, software testing, programming languages, and
software complexity measures. He lectures frequently on computer security
and is the author of the book Formal Specification and Verification of an
Operating System Security Kernel and a co-author of Computers at Risk: Safe
Computing in the Information Age.=20

He is a Fellow of the IEEE Computer Society, a Fellow of the Association for
Computing Machinery, a member of the IFIP Working Group 11.3 on Database
Security, and a member of the International Association for Cryptologic
Research. Dr. Kemmerer is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on
Software Engineering.

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