[CSEE-colloq] talk: Gabe Jakobson on Cybersecurity, 10:30am Tue 11/8, 325 ITE, UMBC

[Tim Finin]

       Cyber Security Situation Awareness and Impact Assessment:
                    Issues, Models and Applications

                          Dr. Gabriel Jakobson
                          Altusys Corporation
                              Princeton NJ

               10:30-11:30am 8 November 2011, ITE 325, UMBC

Cyber attacks committed against IT networks and services have profound
impact both on ongoing mission and future missions, whose operations
are based on these networks and services. The attacks, by exploiting
the vulnerabilities of the software assets can push their impact
through Cyber Terrain – a dependency network of structural, spatial,
functional and other domain-specific dependencies that exist among
software assets and services, and reach the missions. In this
presentation we will introduce a novel approach of assessing impact of
cyber attacks on missions (business process) and describe the basic
models and algorithms of the approach.

Dr. Gabriel Jakobson is the VP and Chief Scientist at Altusys Corp., a
consulting firm specializing in the development of intelligent
situation management technologies for defence and cyber security
applications. During his more than 20 years tenure at Verizon he had
increasing responsibilities of leading advanced database, expert
systems, artificial intelligence, and telecommunication network
management programs. He has authored (and co-authored) more than 100
technical papers and is principal author of 5 US patents in situation
management and event correlation. He received PhD degree in Computer
Science from the Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia. Dr. Jakobson holds
the honorary degree of Doctor Honorius Causa from the Tallinn
Technical University, Estonia, and is Distinguished IEEE
Lecturer. Dr. Jakobson is the member of the Board of Governors of IEEE
Communications Society, Director, IEEE ComSoc North America Region,
co-chair of the Tactical Communications and Operations Technical
Committee of IEEE ComSoc, chair of the IEEE ComSoc Sub-Committee on
Situation Management.