Cyber Security Awareness Day Thursday at Lab

Information Security (S-11) is hosting a half-day event on Cyber Security on Thursday, on the second floor of the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center at Technical Area 3. The purpose of Cyber Security Awareness Day is to heighten employee’s focus on security-related problems caused by advancements in information-sharing technology and the Internet.

According to Gordon Besson of S-11, "We are in changing times with changing technologies and attacks. It's best to be aware. Cyber Security Awareness Day will help strengthen your defenses, at work and at home."

The event schedule is as follows:

• 9 a.m. - Noon - Booths highlighting information about cyber security will be open in the Santa Clara Gallery on the second floor of the Study Center. Information about the cyber security program at Los Alamos, protecting home computers, Classified Matter Protection and Control, Entrust, Information Architecture, Electronic Software Distribution (ESD), Systems Management Server (SMS), etc.
• 9- 10:15 a.m. - Keynote Address: The Future of Internet Security,” by Eugene Schultz of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Jemez and Cochiti rooms.

Schultz will talk about how the Internet has greatly changed the world; its immense value in social interactions, business transactions, academics and other areas is undisputable. At the same time, he said, security-related problems such as the increasing number and effect of denial of service attacks and the proliferation of spyware have grown over the years to the point that some are pessimistic about its future. Can the Internet survive? What are the most serious of the many security-related problems that plague the Internet and what new threats are likely to emerge in the next decade? What solutions could help and why; how likely are they to be used? These and other critical issues also will be discussed.

Schultz is a principal engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He's the author/co-author of five books related to computer security and is the Editor-in-Chief of Computers and Security. While at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he founded and managed DOE's Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC).

More information on the Lab’s cyber security program can be found at http://int.lanl.gov/cyber online.

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