Program

Conference Proceedings (full-text)

Keynote Speakers

Privacy:

Dr. John J. Borking is director of Borking Consultancy (Wassenaar) and associate board member of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (CBP) in The Hague, Netherlands ( www.cbpweb.nl). He is participating in projects doing research on privacy and identity management (PRIME), privacy ontologies and information architectures in relation to privacy law, radio frequency identification (RFID) and privacy in the ambient world. He is arbitrator / mediator and board member of the Dutch Foundation for Alternative Dispute Resolution for ICT (SGOA) ( www.sgoa.org). He is also a board member of the Netherlands Gaming Control Board. He has been vice president and privacy commissioner of the Dutch Data Protection Authority, general manager of COSSO, the Dutch Trade Association for Information & Communication Technology Providers, supervisory board member of Børsen Netherlands B.V., and senior legal counsel and company secretary for Xerox Corp. in The Netherlands and UK.

Security :

John McHugh is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Privacy and Security at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS where he also directs the Privacy and Security Laboratory. Before joining the faculty at Dalhousie, he was a senior member of the technical staff at the CERT Coordination Center, part of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where he did research in survivability, network security, and intrusion detection. He was also affiliated with CyLab and the Center for Wireless and Broadband Research, both part of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at CMU.

Prior to joining CERT, Dr. McHugh was a professor and chairman of the Computer Science Department at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon where he held a Tektronix Professorship. He has been a member of the research faculty at the University of North Carolina and has taught at UNC and at Duke University. For a number of years, Dr. McHugh was a Vice President of Computational Logic, Inc., a contract research company formed to further the application of formal methods of software design and analysis in support of security and safety critical systems. While at CLI, he developed tools for the analysis of covert channels in multilevel secure systems and worked on the problems associated with the efficient implementation of formally specified systems. He has also worked for the Research Triangle Institute, the Naval Research Laboratory, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the University of Minnesota, and the U.S. Patent Office.

Dr. McHugh received his PhD degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. He has a MS degree in computer science from the University of Maryland, and a BS degree in physics from Duke University. He is the author of numerous technical papers and reports. He has served as the chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and is a member of the advisory board for the International Journal of Information Security.
He serves on the program or advisory committees of many of the major conferences and workshops in the computer security field.

Audun Jøsang is Associate Professor of Security and Trust Management at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. Before joining QUT, he was the research leader for IT security at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) in Brisbane, worked in the telecommunications industry for Alcatel in Belgium and for Telenor in Norway, and was Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has a BSc in Telematics from NTH, a MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway College at the University of London, and a PhD from NTNU in Norway.

The main focus of Prof. Jøsang’s research is trust management for open computer networks. This includes investigating the factors that influence people's trust in web sites and online services, as well as developing trust and reputation systems
to assist users and organisations to make trust assessments about remote parties on the Internet. Prof. Jøsang is well known for his work on trust engines based on subjective logic, and is also working on new solutions for network security and
identity management that include trust reasoning.

Public Sector:

Michael Binder is the Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications, Industry Canada

Throughout his extensive career in the federal public service, Michael Binder has held many senior positions in several departments and agencies, including Assistant Deputy Minister positions within Industry Canada and its predecessor over the past 20 years.

As the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications Sector, Mr. Binder has been a driving force towards the development of a world-class communications and information infrastructure in Canada. His many responsibilities include the allocation of spectrum, licensing of the wireless industries, the promotion of the growth and international competitiveness of the information and communication technologies industry, as well as connecting Canadians to broadband.

He also serves on a number of related government and industry boards and committees in such key areas as communications research and development, photonics, and e-commerce. He is the chair of a national government-industry task force on SPAM.

Mr. Binder holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Alberta.

Michael Binder is the Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications, Industry Canada

Brian O’Higgins Chief Technology Officer, Third Brigade Inc.

Mr. O’Higgins is seasoned professional in the security industry, and is best known for his role in introducing PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) technology and products to the security landscape.  He is also a recognized speaker on IT and Internet security.

Prior to joining Third Brigade as a member of the founding executive team, Mr. O'Higgins was the co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Entrust, a leading Internet Security company.   While at Entrust he had overall responsibility for the technology vision and direction for the company.   He was previously with Nortel where he established the Secure Networks group in 1993, and was instrumental in spinning-out this group as an independent company, Entrust.  Prior to this, Mr. O’Higgins was with Bell-Northern Research (BNR) where he was involved in a variety of technology development programs including public key security systems, technology for new telephone products, in-building wireless communications systems and high-performance computing architectures for digital telephone switches.  

Mr.  O’Higgins’  current list of affiliations includes advisory board positions with Defence R&D Canada, Information Technology Association of Canada, Communications and Information Technology Ontario, Algonquin College , and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.  In addition, he currently serves on the boards of Recognia and Fischer International.

Conference Workshop:

Michael Power, a partner in the Ottawa office of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, provides strategic and legal advice to public and private sector clients in the areas of privacy, information technology security, anti-money laundering and electronic government. Mr. Power also serves as Gowlings’ Chief Privacy Officer. He currently is Secretary of the National Executive of the Privacy Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association and Co-Chair of the Privacy, Security and Data Management Sub-Committee of the American Bar Association’s Cyberspace Law Committee.

Michael Power received his LL.B and M.B.A. from Dalhousie University in 1983. He was admitted to the Nova Scotia Barristers Society in 1984 and the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1991.

Prior to joining Gowlings, Mr. Power held various positions within the Department of Justice, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, which included responsibilities for legal advice, policy development and issue management pertaining to information technology, electronic commerce and international trade and investment issues.

Michael Power recently collaborated in writing “Sailing in Dangerous Waters: A Director’s Guide to Data Governance” , a book published by the American Bar Association in August 2005.

Michael Power, a partner in the Ottawa office of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

The New York native has testified before the United States Congress on numerous security issues and in 1998, was appointed financial Services Sector Coordinator for Critical Infrastructure Protection by the Secretary of the Treasury. He was also the first chairman for the U.S. based Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Centre and remains a member of that board.

Steve is the founder and president of Security Risk Solutions, an information security company providing consulting advisory services to major, mid-size, startup and venture capital companies. He is also currently a security advisor with VE Networks.

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Conference Workshop:
“Surveillance, Honey Pots and War Driving: A Look at the Privacy Implications of Network Administration”
Workshop Coordinator is Steven Johnston, CISSP (Senior Strategic Research and Policy Analyst, Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Canada)

This workshop will examine selected aspects of system security and administration including lawful access obligations (David A Townsend
UNB-Law & NRC-IIT, Waiting for the “Access” Axe to Fall: New Investigatory Assistance Legislation for Canada ), implications of privacy law (Steve Penney, Associate Professor, University of New Brunswick Law School, Privacy Law for Network Administrators) and technologies for system surveillance and security (Dr. Larry Korba, Head, Information Security Group, Institute of Information Technology, National Research Council of Canada, Hacking, Tracking, and BaitingSurveillance, Wardriving and Honeypot Technologies).
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Papers 1B - Security 1 (Intrusion Detection 1):

Context-Based Intrusion Detection Using Snort, Nessus and Bugtraq Databases.
Frédéric Massicotte,
Mathieu Couture,
Yvan Labiche.

Network Intrusion Detection using Random Forests.
Jiong Zhang,
Mohammad Zulkernine,

Information Visualization for Intrusion Detection.
James Blustein,
Daniel L. Silver,
Ching-Lung Fu.