Static in the Ether

As previously mentioned, I’ll be attending t the 8th Annual ISSA Conference Monday, 6 to Wednesday, 8 July 2009, along with some of my postgraduate students

While a relatively small, conference, this year’s programme has a nice blend of topics being covered, and in many ways has refocused on being a more Academic and research centered conference, with much of the industry hype and attendees having migrated to the ITWeb Security Summit.

The Security and Networks Research Group (SNRG) will be presenting five papers:

• Investigating the effect of Genetic Algorithms on filter optimisation within fast packet classifiers. (Alastair Nottingham)
• An examination of the Generic Exploit Prevention Mechanisms on Apple’s Leopard Operating System. (Haroon Meer)
• Automated Firewall Rule Set Generation Through Passive Traffic Inspection. (Georg-Christian Pranschke)
• A Framework for the Rapid Development of Anomaly Detection Algorithms in Network Intrusion Detection Systems. (Richard Barnett)
• Management, Processing and Analysis of Cryptographic Network Protocols (Bradley Cowie) (Work in progress stream)

I’ll post appropriate links to the PDF versions once the conference is over.

Again the conference is being held at the School of Tourism & Hospitality (STH)  University of Johannesburg, which is on Bunting Road, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, which can be found here