Ehab Al-Shaer, Ph.D. - DePaul University, Chicago, IL
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Toward Autonomic Security Policy Management
Aug 23, 2006
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Abstract
The assurance of network security is dependent not only on the protocols but also on polices that determine the functional behavior of network security devices. Network security devices such as Firewalls, IPSec gateways, IDS/IPS operate based on locally configured access control policies. However, the complexity of managing security polices, particularly in enterprise networks, poses many challenges for deploying effective security. For example, security policies are usually configured in isolation from each other, even though they are not necessarily independent as they interact with each other to form the global security policy. As a result of such ad-hoc management, policy inconsistencies and network vulnerability are created. In addition security policy might grow in size causing a significant performance overhead in security devices. A major performance gain can be achieved if policies can be dynamic optimized to adapt to traffic properties (called traffic-aware policy optimization). This talk will explain these challenges and present the recent research results in the area of automated verification, and optimization of network security polices.About the Speaker
Ehab Al-Shaer is an Associate Professor and the Director of Multimedia Networking Research Lab (MNLAB)in the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information System at DePaul University. He received his Ph.D. in CS from Old Dominion University, M.S. in CS from Northeastern University, and B.Sc. in CompEng from KFUPM in 1998, 1994, and 1990 respectively. His primary research areas are Network Security, Internet monitoring, fault management, and multimedia protocols. Prof. Al-Shaer has many refereed journal and conferences publications in his area. He is a Co-Editor of number of books in the area of multimedia management and Monitoring Internet Monitoring. Prof. Al-Shaer is currently the program co-chair for IM'07, the primer conference in network management. He was also the Conference Program Co-chair for MMNS'01, E2EMON'03-06. He also served as steering committee member, TPC member, guest speaker, panelist, tutorial presenter, for many IEEE/ACM conferences and industry seminars. Prof. Al-Shaer was a Guest Editor for many journals. He received a fellowship award from NASA Langley Research Center in 1997. His research is sponsored in part by NSF, Cisco, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Aramco and Aprisma.
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