The Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research organises a series of presentations aimed specifically at the postgraduate MSc programmes.
Data centres today and tomorrow (Tuesday 21st March 2012)
Colin Lynch, Senior Technical Consultant at Computacenter Plc
"A brief on my personal story how I started and progressed"
Review of the current and emerging enterprise networking and data centres technologies.
What skills are hot at the moment in the industry and will likely be most in demand for the next 5 years or so.
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An insight into consulting for a major Service Provider (Tuesday 29th November 2011)
Mark Culverhouse, Network Consulting Engineer, Cisco
The rapid evolution of the Internet is transforming the way the world works, lives, learns and plays. In June 2011 Cisco Systems predicted that at the current growth rate, the number of Internet enabled devices in the world would exceed 15 billion by 2015 - more than twice the world's population, and more than three times the total number of IPv4 addresses! Also predicted is that in 2015 one million minutes of video will be viewed around the world every second, delivered over the Internet .... Laboured with the responsibility for this growth over the next four years are Internet Service Providers.
Based on experiences gained as a Cisco Network Consulting Engineer for one of the largest UK ISPs, this presentation will provide an overview of the technologies that Internet Service Providers are implementing today to support next-generation services, while overcoming some of the challenges that are being faced - and also aiming to fill in some of the gaps left by the textbooks! This presentation will demonstrate how the real structure of the Internet can be inferred, and illustrate how traditional design and implementations are being rewritten to facilitate the growing Internet.
Topics included (but not limited to) Content Delivery Networks, Multicast, QoS, BGP, IPv4 - IPv6 transition...
IT Management and IT Governance (Wednesday 24th November 2010)
Dr Martin Knahl, Hochschule Furtwangen
A number of "Best-Practice" Frameworks for IT Service Management and IT Governance have emerged over the years to facilitate IT operation, planning and control. IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) for IT Service Management and Control Objectives for IT and related Technologies (CobiT) for IT Governance are the most widely adopted industry standard reference and process models that will be covered in the talk. They have been adopted by many organizations in an effort to improve their IT Services, to develop a customer oriented approach to IT Service provision and to provide required IT Governance mechanisms. The ultimate aim is to provide an integrated management architecture for the planning and provision of IT-Services based on a proven processes model. Frameworks such as ITIL and CobiT further provide a mapping to standards such as the ISO 20000 or ISO 27000 series to enable certification for IT service providers. This paper evaluates key IT Management requirements and reviews the current state of the art. A case study outlines the role of reference models and the use of management tools for the provision of an integrated management architecture. The talk further outlines the various changes and technological advances that ITSM and IT Governance have undergone over the years. This talk further refers to the current practices and standards in the areas of IT Service Management and IT Governance. Based on current literature and practice comparison and analysis of the frameworks and standards.
Presentation notes in PDF format.
Malware uncovered (Wednesday 21st April 2010)
David Emm, Kaspersky Lab
The malware landscape has changed significantly in recent years. Until a few years ago, viruses and other malicious programs tended to be isolated acts of computer vandalism; and 'damage' was largely defined in terms of loss or corruption of data, or the failure of e-mail servers under the load generated by malware epidemics. This has given way to cybercrime - malicious code designed to make money illegally - and we've seen the emergence and development of a 'dark economy' that supports it. This presentation will outline the threat landscape and focus on the methods used today by cybercriminals to compromise computers on the Internet, harvest personal data and make money illegally. In addition, it will highlight some of the tools and techniques used by malware analysts to investigate malicious code. A live malware demonstrations will illustrate some of the key techniques used by malware authors.
Presentation notes in PDF format.
Digital forensics investigations of social networks: learning from other disciplines (Wednesday 10th February 2010)
John Haggerty, Lecturer in Information Systems Security, University of Salford
In recent years, digital forensics investigations have risen in complexity due to the widespread use of technology and the decreasing cost of memory. One area of digital forensics that is underrepresented due to the limitations of existing tools is that of investigations into social networks despite the popularity of applications such as Facebook, email or mobile phones for this purpose. Social network analysis may not provide tangible evidence to be used in a court of law per se, but will identify intangible evidence such as other suspects, potential sources of evidence or the suspect's culpability for a crime or malicious event. It is therefore of major interest to those conducting digital forensics investigations outside the traditional law enforcement environment, such as national security, corporate investigations and commercial intelligence operations. This paper provides an overview of the technical and legal complexities of social network analysis. It then discusses specifically what the digital forensics field can learn and incorporate from other disciplines, such as the social sciences, to enhance the investigation.
Presentation notes in PDF format.
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The Significance of UMTS Long Term Evolution (LTE) for Operators - An Industry View (Wednesday 3rd February 2010)
Andy Wilton, Managing Director, Truron Consulting Ltd
The Seminar discusses the significance of LTE, both to 'greenfield' broadband and existing cellular operators. It will become clear that LTE represents a critical discontinuity in the evolution of mobile systems comparable with the move from analogue to digital.
A short examination of the current wireless competitive environment will be followed by a more detailed discussion of the factors affecting operator profitability. The way in which the relative significance of these factors has changed, with the progressive introduction of UMTS and HSDPA will be reviewed to justify the prospect of a quantum leap in operator profitability following the introduction of LTE.
A brief overview of the LTE physical layer will be used to develop a re-balanced operator profitability model which will require that equipment vendors and operators have a renewed focus on three areas: Increased Revenue /User; Optimised Transport Costs; and, Self Optimising Networks
It will be argued that the single most important method of addressing two of these three factors is a different approach to Network Planning. The final part of the discussion will be dedicated to an overview of the novel aspects of this approach.
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Information Security (Wednesday 27th January 2010)
Paul McKay/Craig Moore, Bond Pearce
Did you know that more than 70% of people would reveal their computer password in exchange for a bar of chocolate?
Bond Pearce is a leading business law firm providing corporate, commercial, property and dispute resolution services to some of the UK's pre-eminent businesses and public sector organisations. The firm is recognised nationally for its work in the energy, retail, health and safety, real estate and insurance sectors. In a recent survey of advisers to the FTSE 100, Bond Pearce was listed as 24th nationwide and first equal of all law firms in the south of England.
Presentation notes in PDF format.
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An Insight into Information, Computer, and Network Security (Wednesday 20th January 2010)
Dr Orhan Gemikonakli, Middlesex University
Presentation not available.
Information Risk Management: Raising Awareness in Barclays - (Thursday 19th November 2009)
Mark Logsdon, Barclays
Real world impacts of Information Security within Organisations (Wednesday 14th October 2009)
Opeyemi Ore, Information Security Architect, Blackberry.
Presentation (PDF, 1.3MB)
Other documents: Insider Threat - Auditing Checks |
Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard |
The Convergence of I.T. Regulatory Compliance
Optimal Routing? Is there such a thing?, (Monday 11th May 2009)
Prof Vic Grout, CAIR, Glyndwr University.
Presentation (PDF, 800KB)
Brief History of Mobile Communications, (Tuesday 11th November 2008)
The presentation will be an irregular walk through the history of mobile communication from its conception in the 1890s through to today’s 4th generation research systems. It will focus upon technology disruptions that characterised its developments and give examples of actual projects that were led by the presenter. It is aimed to be non-technical in nature, but, the informality of the seminar is such that the presentation can be interrupted with questions and points of detail at any time and such issues can be discuss as they arise.
Information Security and Electromagnetic attack a vulnerability often overlooked (Wednesday 29th October 2008)
Dr. Richard Hoad, Qinetiq
Presentation (PDF, 2MB)
IT governance and the role of the information security professional (Wednesday 16th April 2008)
Dr Theo Tryfonas, University of Glamorgan
Presentation (PDF, 656KB)
A Closer Look at OSPF and EIGRP (Wednesday 2nd April 2008)
Dr Vic Grout, NEWI
Presentation (PDF, 480KB)
Run silent, run deep: how cyber criminals protect their code (Wednesday 6th February 2008)
David Emm, Kaspersky Lab
Presentation (PDF, 2MB)
Digital Forensics: Concepts, Processess and Challenges (Wednesday
2nd May 2007)
Dr Cheryl Hennell, University of Portsmouth
Presentation (PDF, 1.4MB)
Architecting for security without borders or firewalls (Friday
9th March 2007)
Paul Simmonds, Board of Management, Jericho Forum Global Information
Security Director, ICI Plc.
Presentation (PDF, 730KB)
Performance and Scalability Optimisation of P2P Networks through Adaptive Cooperative Network Construction (Wednesday 15th November 2006)
Dr. Nikos Antonopoulos, University of Surrey
Presentation (PDF, 6.5MB)
Web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...the continuing evolution of the World Wide Web (Wednesday 8th November 2006)
Dr Mike Evans, University of Reading
Presentation (PDF, 1MB)
What does it mean to be a HACKER? (Tuesday 10th October 2006)
James McKeogh, Information Risk Management, Barclays Wealth Management
Presentation not available.
BotNets - A Global Internet Threat (Wednesday 15th March 2006)
Jim Hart, Symantec Managed Security Services
Presentation (PDF, 5MB)
Information Assurance: Strategic Alignment and Competitive Advantage (Wednesday 22nd February 2006)
Jean-Noel Ezingeard, Henley Management College
Presentation (PDF, 1.1MB)
The Development of a Framework for Applied Deception in a Honeynet Environment (Monday 12th December 2005)
Ms. Suen Yek, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
Presentation (PDF, 500KB)
Let's Get Rid of Information Security (Wednesday 7th December 2005)
Jeremy Ward, Director of Service Development, Symantec
Presentation (PDF, 4.5MB)
The Rule of the Open Source (Wednesday 9th November 2005)
Dominique le Foll, Vice President of Solution Architecture, Service Assurance Group, in Acterna
Presentation (PDF, 3MB)
Internet Routing: Past, present and future (Wednesday 9th November 2005)
Dr. Vic Grout, head of Centre for Applied Internet Research, from North East Wales Institute of Higher Education
Presentation (PDF, 2MB)
Access Control: Are we ready for the knowledge worker? (Wednesday 12th October 2005)
Prof. Reinhardt Botha (web site), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
Presentation (PDF, 220KB)
The IT Oversight Committee (Wednesday 12th October 2005)
Prof. Rossouw von Solms (web site), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
Presentation (PDF, 170KB)
BCS SW events are open to all and are free - attendees are asked to pre-register at the above address.
