A full day seminar presented by Radia Perlman, Sun Microsystems. This workshop is being coordinated by Dr. Marc Haines, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Overview

This workshop covers the concepts in network security protocols as well as describing the current standards. It approaches the problems first from a generic conceptual viewpoint, covering the problems and the types of technical approaches for solutions. For example, how would encrypted email work with distribution lists? What are the performance and security differences in basing authentication on public key technology versus secret key technology? What kinds of mistakes do people generally make when designing protocols? Armed with a conceptual knowledge of the toolkit of tricks that allow authentication, encryption, key distribution, etc., the workshop then covers the current standards, including Kerberos, S/MIME, SSL, IPsec, PKI, and web security.

Topics

The topics to be covered include: Overview of why network security is needed Overview of cryptography: public key, secret key & hash. Secure email issues Key distribution Kerberos details (including Microsoft Kerberos) PKI details (including X.509 and PKIX) Concepts in real-time protocols: authentication handshakes, perfect forward secrecy, session resumption, identity hiding, plausible deniability, denial of service protection, "layer 3" approach (IPsec) vs "layer 4" (SSL, SSH) & export rules IPsec details: data packet formats (AH and ESP) & IKE (key establishment protocol) SSL Web: URLs, HTTP, cookies

About the speaker

Radia Perlman is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and the architect for the Internet Security Research Group at Sun Labs. She is known for her contributions to bridging (spanning tree algorithm) and routing (link state routing), as well as security (sabotage-proof networks). She is the author of "Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols", and co-author of Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World", two of the top 10 Networking reference books, according to Network Magazine Ms. Perlman is one of the 25 people whose work has most influenced the networking industry, according to Data Communications Magazine. She has about 50 issued patents. She has been awarded a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in computer science, all from MIT. She also holds an honorary doctorate from KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.

Who should Attend?

This workshop is designed for anyone that wants an overview of the alphabet soup of standards and cryptography, along with an appreciation of the kinds of flaws that get designed into systems. This information is especially useful for anyone that needs to design or implement a network security solution, but it is also useful to anyone who needs to understand existing offerings in order to deploy and manage them. Although the tutorial is technically deep, no background other than intellectual curiosity and a good nights sleep in the recent past are required.

Coordinator

This technology event is being coordinated by Dr. Marc Haines, Assistant Professor in the Management Information Systems at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.