[CSEE Talk] Talk: Predictive analytics for insider threats, 4pm Wed 3/5, ITE325b, UMBC

[Tim Finin]

            Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
             University of Maryland, Baltimore County

             PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS FOR INSIDER THREATS

                        Ben Shariati, UMBC

              4:00pm Wednesday, 5 March 2014, ITE325b

This talk will discuss how using operational cyber analytics for
predictive security intelligence support a powerful defensive
cybersecurity capability. Specifically, I will share elements of
my commercial research on how organizations can predict malicious
behavior (both user and digital) on their networks by
incorporating tailored algorithms and artificial intelligence
capabilities as part of an overall cybersecurity sensor
architecture. Additionally, this talk will briefly discuss the
impact that mobile devices have on the insider threat
vulnerability within the government and private sector.

Mr. Shariati is a technology and business executive with over 20
years of experience specializing in strategic and operational
cybersecurity program activities and development for
international organizations. His career highlights include
serving as a lead enterprise security architect at the Federal
Reserve Bank in Richmond, VA, a cybersecurity advisor at Cell
Trust Corporation, and Technology Advisor/Cybersecurity Architect
for the United Nations Pan American Health Organization.

He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Information Assurance/
Cybersecurity at the George Washington University, where his
dissertation work examines the analysis and management of
cybersecurity concerns of critical infrastructures. His research
and professional interests include mobile device security,
emerging technology evaluation, risk analysis, audit, and
compliance. For AY13-14, Mr. Shariati is a visiting lecturer and
Interim Assistant Director of the Graduate Cybersecurity Program
overseeing program activities at The Universities at Shady
Grove. In addition to teaching several courses at UMBC,
Mr. Shariati has taught graduate cybersecurity courses at George
Washington University and undergraduate technical certification
classes Hagerstown Community College.

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