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<CENTER><H3>Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium<BR></H3></CENTER>
<CENTER><H5>4:15PM, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 <BR>
NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building Room B3<br>
<A HREF=http://ee380.stanford.edu>http://ee380.stanford.edu</A>
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Building a Trustworthy Business in the Post-Snowden Era
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Alex Stamos<BR>
Artemis Internet
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<B>About the talk:</B><P>
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.
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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.
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<B>Slides:</B><P>
There is no downloadable version of the slides for this
talk available at this time.
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<B>About the speaker:</B><P>
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 <a href="http://unhandled.com"> http://unhandled.com</a>.
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<B>Contact information:</B><P>
Alex Stamos<BR>
Artemis Internet<BR>
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