CATCH

Cybersecurity Applications and Technology for Homeland Security


Day 1: March 3, 2009

Day 2: March 4, 2009

09:00

WELCOME

Douglas Maughan, Ph.D.

Program Manager, Cyber Security R&D

Science and Technology Directorate, DHS

 

08:30

WELCOME

Douglas Maughan, Ph.D.

Program Manager, Cyber Security R&D

Science and Technology Directorate, DHS

09:10

DHS S&T WELCOME

David Boyd, Ph.D.

Director, Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID)

Science and Technology Directorate, DHS

 

08:45

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Pascal Levensohn

Founder & Managing Partner

Levensohn Venture Partners

09:30

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The Honorable James R. Langevin

U.S. House of Representatives (RI)

 

09:30

BREAK

10:00

BREAK

10:00

SESSION 3 – CYBERSECURITY RESEARCH

INFRASTRUCTURE

Current Developments in DETER Cybersecurity Testbed Technology

Terry Benzel, USC ISI

 

Uses and Challenges for Network Datasets

John Heidemann, USC ISI

 

How to Test DoS Defenses

Roshan K. Thomas, SPARTA, Inc.

10:30

SESSION 1 – BOTNETS AND MALWARE

Eff ective Flow Filtering for Botnet Search

Space Reduction

Robert Walsh, BBN Technologies

 

Real-Time Detection of Fast Flux Service Networks

Alper Caglayan, Milcord LLC

 

A Combined Fusion and Data Mining Framework for the Detection of Botnets

Owen McCusker, Sonalysts, Inc.

 

12:00

LUNCH (ON YOUR OWN)

11:30

LUNCH (ON YOUR OWN)

13:30

SESSION 2 – INTERNET ROUTING AND SECURITY

Progress Toward Securing the Routing Infrastructure

Sandra Murphy, SPARTA, Inc.

 

BGPmon: A real-time, scalable, extensible monitoring system

Dan Massey, Colorado State University

 

A Comparative Analysis of BGP Anomaly Detection and Robustness Algorithms

Kotikapaludi Sriram, NIST

13:00

PANEL

Rod Beckstrom, DHS National Cyber Security Center

John Large, U.S. Secret Service

John Nagengast, AT&T

Roger Novak, Novak Biddle Venture Partners

Jonathan Smith, University of Pennsylvania

14:30

BREAK

15:00

SESSION 4 – DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM SECURITY (DNSSEC) AND DATA VISUALIZATION

DNSSEC in Practice: Using DNSSEC-Tools to Deploy DNSSEC

Russ Mundy, SPARTA Inc.

 

Deploying DNS Security (DNSSEC) in Large-Scale Operational Environments

Joe Gersch, Secure64 Software Corporation

 

FloVis: Flow Visualization System

Carrie Gates, CA Labs

15:00-19:00

EXPO (BALLROOM A)

16:30

CONCLUSION