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Tom Longstaff
Chief Scientist, Applied Physics Laboratory, University Affiliated Research Center, Johns Hopkins University
Biography
Dr. Tom Longstaff is the Chief Scientist for the Cyber Missions Branch of the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). APL is a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), a division of the Johns Hopkins University founded in 1942 and located in Laurel, MD. Tom joined APL in 2007 to work with a wide variety of infocentric operations projects on behalf of the US Government to include technology transition of cyber R&D, information assurance, intelligence, and global information networks.
Tom is also the chair of the Computer Science, Information Assurance, and Information Systems Engineering Programs within the Whiting School at The Johns Hopkins University. Tom’s academic publications span topics such as malware analysis, information survivability, insider threat, intruder modeling, and intrusion detection.
He maintains an active role in the information assurance community and regularly advises organizations on the future of network threat and information assurance. Tom is also a fellow of the International Information Integrity Institute and editor of the IEEE Security & Privacy journal.
Prior to coming to APL, Tom was the deputy director for technology for the CERT at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. In his 15-year tenure at CERT, Tom helped to create many of the projects and centers that enabled CERT to become an internationally recognized network security organization. His work included assisting the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to use response and vulnerability data to define and direct a research and operations program in analysis and prediction of network security and cyber terrorism events.
Presentation: The most difficult problems for incident response
The types of incidents for which we have had to respond over the past 10 years has been drastically changing from vandalism to crime to espionage. The needs of our CSIRTs have been changing right along with this shift. This presentation will discuss some of the largest challenges facing the International CSIRT community today from an R&D point of view, and will talk about how some of these challenges can be addressed though innovative approaches to research.