3rd Annual CERIAS Research Symposium

The Home Land Security (HLS) simulation is a tool based on the Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (SEAS). SEAS is developed at Purdue University in conjunction with the Department of Defense. It provides a "wind tunnel" for decision makers to formulate, test, and analyze alternative courses of action.

• Securing Your Website

  This workshop will provide you with practical tips and techniques for securing your website. Topics that will be covered include: Network Layout, Common Events or Exploits and Appropriate Responses, Determining Appropriate Server/OS Configurations for Your Needs, Securing the Host, Pitfalls to Avoid in Popular Application Services, Web Proxying, Browser Security, and Monitoring Your System.

• Windows Security

  This workshop will provide an interesting look at Information Security as it crosses the most popular platform today: Windows 2000. This course will highlight several areas of security including: IP Based Restriction, File System Security, File System Sharing to the Network, Cryptography, Delegation of Control, Logging, Creating a Forensic Trail, Intrusion Detection, and Virus Detection. We will look at each of these areas and how you can most effectively implement them on the platform.

• Security Management

  It has been said that employees are your best firewall, this workshop will look at the role of policy and training in creating an information security culture so that employees are functioning like a firewall. This workshop will include the role of policy in the Information Security Program, models for examining your business environment and your computing environment, and steps for creating Information Security Policy. In addition, this workshop will show you how to identify poor security practices common to computer users in your organization, how to establish goals for an awareness and training program in your organization, and how to select appropriate training methods to ensure that your training program meets its goals.

• Network Security

  This workshop will include an introduction to network threats, vulnerabilities, and security. If you need a primer on network security, this is for you. We will cover basic security concepts and how those concepts apply network scenarios; examine the role of various components and users in network security; review the basic functions of network security tools; discuss vulnerabilities and threats that exist across all levels of networking; and review limitations, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities of network security tools.

• Intrusion Detection

  Looking for an introduction to intrusion detection? This workshop is for you. This workshop includes an overview of intrusion detection systems, types of intrusion detection systems, the functions of intrusion detection systems, advantages to different intrusion detection systems, as well as the drawbacks.