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June 09, 2005
CSI NetSec
If anyone reading this is going to be at CSI NetSec in Scottsdale Az next week, I'm giving a talk at 9:15 on Tuesday the 14th about ideas we can glean from biology to help secure computer systems. I'll talk a bit about immunology and how we can apply ideas from the study of immune systems to computer security. I'll talk about layers in the immune system and in security, about adaptivity in the immune system and how that is missing in our security systems. I'll also talk about the role of human intervention, both in immunity (for example, through vaccinations) and in security. I'll talk about response, how the immune system handles false positives, and how we need to redesign systems to be more secure, but not in the traditional way of having a secure or trusted codebase to build on, but a system in which no part is assumed to be secure or trusted.
So if you're there, come along!