Computer Science

Colloquium Details

The True Challenges of 21st Century Information Security R&D

Abstract

Today's information security is no longer about keeping people out; it's about letting people in - the right people, the right time, to the right resources. Modern social and business practices require us to work closely together via access to the computing infrastructure and the Internet. Once connected, each needs to be brought directly to the right resources. In this respect, information security today is the key "enabler" that propels the next-generation paradigm shift. Traditional way of looking at information security as a protecting and prohibiting technology is out of date. Boeing operates one of the largest computing infrastructures in the world executing highly complex global manufacturing, distributed collaborative engineering, massive virtual enterprise integration, as well as building highly sophisticated large-scale commercial and defense systems. In this future business and the larger human society context, I like to share some perspectives on the criticality of information security and our view on 21st century information security R&D issues and directions.

Biography

Ming-Yuh Huang (who goes by "Huang") is a Boeing Technical Fellow responsible for managing and leading Boeing's Strategic Information Assurance R&D Program to support the corporate enterprise, as well as a wide array of large-scale commercial/military programs. Before joining Boeing in 1990, Huang was with DEC Research Artificial Intelligence Technology Center. He led an expert system development effort called ESSENSE (Expert System for Service Network Security), which led to one of world's earliest intrusion detection products - POLYCENTER ID. While with Boeing R&D, Huang had won and led DARPA intrusion detection R&D project, co-authored IETF standard IDMEF Intrusion Detection Systems communication protocol in collaboration with IBM Research and US Air Force Information Warfare Center. He was the Program Co-Chair of RAID-1999 (International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection) at Purdue, and the General Chair of RAID-2005 at Seattle. He was also the program-chair of NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Cyber Security and Defense: Research Issues" at Gdansk, Poland in 2005, and the program-chair of SADFE-2005 (Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering) at Taipei, Taiwan. Huang was thrice invited by European Commission and NSF to help defining US/EU information security R&D collaboration framework. Huang has delivered many talks internationally; for 2006 - keynote speeches to SAFECOMP-2006 (The 25th International Conference on Computer Safety, Security and Reliability) at Gdansk, Poland, and to IEEE/ACM WPI'06 (International Workshop on Web Privacy Intelligence) at Hong Kong. Huang received his B.S. in Physics in 1979, a MS from University of Oregon Computer & Information Science Department and did one year of Ph.D. study there.