[Cryptography] Fwd: Building a Trustworthy Business in the Post-Snowden Era

[Bill Frantz]

I attended the lecture described below. IMHO it was an 
interesting and useful contribution to the list of desirable 
system security directions in the post-Snowdon era.

The talk was video taped and will be distributed on iTunes and 
YouTube The release schedule to these channels is highly 
variable since it depends upon how much time SCPD staff has 
available outside of critical class-related work. See 
<http://ee380.stanford.edu> for details.

Cheers - Bill

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From: allison at stanford.edu (Dennis Allison)


              Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium

                 4:15PM, Wednesday, January 8, 2014
      NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building Room B3
                    http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]


Topic:    Building a Trustworthy Business in the Post-Snowden Era

Speaker:  Alex Stamos
           Artemis Internet

About the talk:

The revelations caused by Edward Snowden's leak of thousands of
NSA documents have caused a great deal more political noise than
actionable intelligence for the infosec community. No matter what
you believe personally about Snowden, his motivations and the
morality of his actions, now that this information has become
public it is important for all professionals in our space to arm
themselves with any useful knowledge they can find and to apply
that knowledge to protecting the public from current and future
attacks.

In this talk we will summarize the technical details that have
come out as well as make some educated guesses as to how the NSA
is able to accomplish some of the feats claimed by Snowden. We
will then discuss what these details mean for the current
capabilities of nation-state level attackers and the future
capabilities of lesser online adversaries. Detailed
recommendations on how to protect yourself will be provided and
we will look into the crystal ball to predict what kinds of
advances we can foresee in the upcoming years.

About the speaker:

Alex Stamos is the CTO of Artemis, the division of NCC Group that
is proud to be launching the .Secure gTLD. He was the co-founder
of iSEC Partners, one of the world's premier security
consultancies and also a part of NCC Group. Alex has spent his
career building or improving secure, trustworthy systems, and is
a noted expert in Internet infrastructure, cloud computing and
mobile security. He is a frequently requested speaker at
conferences such as Black Hat, Defcon, Amazon ZonCon, Microsoft
Blue Hat, FS-ISAC and Infragard. He holds a BSEE from the
University of California, Berkeley and his personal security
writings are available at http://unhandled.com[2].


Embedded Links:
[ 1 ]    http://ee380.stanford.edu
[ 2 ]    http://unhandled.com



ABOUT THE COLLOQUIUM:

See the Colloquium website, http://ee380.stanford.edu, for scheduled
speakers, FAQ, and additional information.  Stanford and SCPD students
can enroll in EE380 for one unit of credit.  Anyone is welcome 
to attend;
talks are webcast live and archived for on-demand viewing over 
the web.

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