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October 7, 2010
2010 GTISC Security Summit
"Evolving Nature of Cyber Security Threats"
9:00am - 11:30am • Ferst Center for the Arts
The 2010 GTISC Security Summit will be held on Thursday, October 7 (the summit is coordinated with FutureMedia Fest (FM) and will be part of the morning session of FM on Oct 7). This year, we have brought back Georgia Tech graduates and GTISC friends who have distinguished themselves in the cyber security field for the Summit. The theme of the summit is going to the "evolving nature of cyber security threats". The line up is as follows:
Keynote: Howard Schmidt (tentative), White House Cyber Security Coordinator and former Georgia Tech Professor of Practice.
Panel Moderator: Rich DeMillo, Georgia Tech PhD, Distinguished Professor of Computing, College of Computer Science; Professor of Management; and former Dean, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Panelists:
- Paul Judge, Georgia Tech, PhD, Chief Scientist, Barracuda Networks www.barracudanetworks.com
- Chris Rouland, Georgia Tech, MSINFS, CEO, Endgame Systems
- David Aucsmith, Georgia Tech PhD, Senior Director, Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments, Microsoft Corporation, www.microsoft.com
- Greg Conti, Georgia Tech, PhD, United States Military Academy, West Point
- David Dagon, Georgia Tech, Postdoctoral Fellow
- Marc Sachs, Georgia Tech Alum, Executive Director, National Security and Cyber Policy at Verizon, www.verizonwireless.com
- Val Rahmani, CEO, Damballa (GTISC research is being commercialized by Damballa)
People
Chaitrali Amrutkar
Why did you pick GTISC?
I entered USA and Georgia Tech to pursue my masters in computer science. I had worked on
some exciting telephony related projects during my undergrad. GTISC has a variety of projects
related to communications security and thus I got involved in GTISC as a graduate research
assistant during my masters. I worked on various research projects at GTISC, which manifested
into the desire of pursuing a research-oriented career. PhD was the next obvious step on that
career path. I chose to continue at GTISC because of the solid reputation of GTISC’s security
research group and my already established comfort level of working here.
What is your research area and why did you select it?
I am a first year PhD student and have worked on a couple of areas in security. I recently finished a project on user privacy in context sensitive applications. Protecting user data privacy remains the biggest concern in realizing today's context sensitive applications like location services. We designed and developed a privacy-preserving framework for context sensitive applications, which can run efficiently on hardware constrained mobile devices.
Nowadays everyone carries a cellular phone or some form of wireless mobile device. These mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous and are bound to introduce security and privacy threats to the communication infrastructure and users in the future. Communications technologies fascinate me and thus I am very interested in working on security in communication networks. In general, my interests are in cellular security, user and content privacy and network security.
How do you see your future and your future research?
I believe that there will always be ways to better the existing communications networks technology, be it in terms of performance or availability. By and large, a new architectural invention in these networks also introduces new potential security threats. I expect that there will be a good deal of research in my areas of interest even in the future and I would like to try and contribute towards them. I have yet to decide whether I want to stay in academia or branch out to industry research after graduation.
How do you see women in computing by year 2015 (5 years from now)?
The alarming rate of reduction of women in computing is a concern, especially in the US. The percentage of women earning a bachelor’s degree in computer science has dropped from 37% to 22% in the last two decades. In my opinion, lack of education and interest in computer science are the major reasons behind this drop. Educating high-school girls and their parents about the good income, social respect and work satisfaction in computer science related occupations, can help reverse the trend in the future.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~camrutk/personal.html
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