Stevens team presents Internet cyber terror scenario, Oct. 12, at Statewide Symposium on Homeland Security
Computer scientists & engineers will examine cyber attacks via the Internet
HOBOKEN, N.J. — A panel of highly acclaimed experts in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology will play out a scenario of analysis and response to a crippling cyber attack on the Internet at the New Jersey Statewide Symposium on Homeland Security, October 12, 2004, at Rutgers Newark. The Stevens team will be one of seven member teams featured from the New Jersey Universities Consortium on Homeland Security; they will present their portion of the program at 1 p.m.
The symposium will be in a plenary session format throughout. Breakfast and lunch will be served to registrants. For information and RSVP, contact Alison Sherley, asherley@pegasus.rutgers.edu. Press are welcome to attend.
“Our situational security scenario will be a large-scale cyber attack,” said Dr. Rebecca Wright, an Associate Professor of Computer Science who will also moderate the panel. “The storyline is: The Internet is under attack. The networks we rely on for communication, commerce and access to information are crippled.
“The questions we will ask include, ‘How can we determine if this a terrorist attack, a hacker attack, or simply buggy software gone awry?’” she said. “How can the likelihood and effects of such attacks be minimized? How can we track the source to contain the attack and identify the perpetrators?”
The panel members from Stevens include:
Dr. Susanne Wetzel, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science – Detecting and Thwarting Attacks in a Wireless World;
Dr. R. Chandramouli, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering – Spectrum-Agile Wireless Networking Meets Cyberterrorism;
Dr. George Kamberov, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science – Visualization of Large-Scale Networks and Attacks;
And Dr. Wright – Privacy-Preserving Data Mining and Network Monitoring
The New Jersey Universities Consortium for Homeland Security includes seven schools: Rutgers University, The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, The New Jersey Institute of Technology, Stevens Institute of Technology, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Monmouth University, and Princeton University.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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