When: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Registration begins 8:30 a.m.
Meeting begins at 9:00 a.m.
Where: OCLC, Inc.
(Kilgour Building – enter from the
East)
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, Ohio 43017
Free
Parking Available
Topic: Enterprise Security and
Cracking
the Data Encryption Standard
ATP is pleased to announce that the February meeting topic will cover Enterprise
Security and a discussion of Matt Curtin’s latest book, Brute
Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard.
Robert
K. West, Founder and CEO, Echelon
One, LLC, will discuss enterprise security as a general topic with a focus
on technology changes over the past two years. Mr. West is responsible for
creating and executing the corporate strategy for Echelon One, LLC, an
information security research company. He has 20 years of experience in
information security, strategic planning, governance, organizational change,
relationship management, computer network design, implementation and
management. 2005 was a watershed year for the information security community. California
Senate Bill 1386 shed light on issues that had not been spoken about openly
and the public quickly became aware of the issues information security
professionals face on a daily basis. Additionally, phishing and pharming became
part of our vocabulary as threats transitioned from hackers to the criminal
element. This session will cover the challenges to be faced in 2006, highlight
a couple of specific cases, and communicate what an organization needs to do to
protect information effectively.
C. Matthew Curtin is a Columbus-based technologist, writer, and
entrepreneur. In a professional career of less than fifteen years he has helped
to shape our understanding of the benefits and risks of living in a
globally–connected world. He helped to develop the technical infrastructure for
some of the earliest electronic commerce Web sites and to show others how to
use technology such as network firewalls and cryptography to protect their data
and their users. During the Crypto Wars of the mid to late 1990s, Mr. Curtin
was an integral part of a seminal distributed computing project that broke a
message encrypted with the U.S. Government's Data Encryption Standard for the
first time in open research, changing the tone of the debate in Congress over
cryptographic policy and hastening the demise of the standard. Mr. Curtin will
discuss his most recent book, the story of this work, Brute Force:
Cracking the Data Encryption Standard (Copernicus Books, 2005).
The meeting fee is $20 for members and $30 for
non-members. To pre-register by e-mail, respond to treasurer@atp-ohio.org, and include the
company name and names of those who will attend. Or, to register by phone, call
the ATP HOTLINE at 614-836-4318. And
don’t forget, when you pre-register before the deadline (5:00 p.m. on Friday,
February 3, 2006), your name is automatically entered in the drawing for a
prize. Please register early so that we may have an accurate count for seating
and lunch. Your pre-registration allows us to keep our member costs down.
