Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium

4:15PM, Wednesday, October 28, 1998
NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03

Welcome to the Bad Part of Town
Computer Security Incidents at Stanford University

Stephen E. Hansen
Stanford University
About the talk:
Welcome to the Bad Part of Town

Welcome to the Bad Part of Town

The days of the network as a cozy research environment, an academic small town where you know everyone or at least know of them, are no more. The creation and commercialization of the Internet along with its exponential growth has moved the network neighborhood to the wrong side of the tracks and into the bad part of town.

This talk will dwell briefly on the computer security problems that derive from the rapid changes in Internet culture, discuss the most common causes of computer security problems in the (Stanford) academic environment, and finally introduce the University's computer security response team and the current trends in computer and network misuse and abuse.

About the speaker:

Stephen E. Hansen Stephen Hansen is Stanford University's Computer Security Officer, a position he has held since 1994. As Computer Security Officer Mr. Hansen is responsible for coordinating incident handling and resolution, security infrastructure and policy development. As leader of the Stanford University Network Security Team (SUNSeT), Mr. Hansen is also the team representative to the Forum of Incident and Security Response Teams (FIRST) and a member of the FIRST Stearing Committee.

From 1975 until 1994 Mr. Hansen was a member of the technical staff at the Stanford's Integrated Circuits Laboratory. In this position he served as Systems Manager supporting the research efforts of the faculty, staff, and graduate students of the Simulation and Modeling Group and as Senior Scientific Programmer developing programs for the simulation and modeling of silicon integrated circuit processing. His work in this area has produced several widely used silicon IC process and device simulation programs. In 1983 he was asked to organize the Electrical Engineering Computer Facility (EECF) at Stanford, serving as its Director until 1994.

Stephen E. Hansen received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1976 and 1981 respectively. Mr. Hansen is a member of Sigma Xi, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Systems Administrators Guild (SAGE), and College and University Information Security Professionals (CUISP).

Contact information:

Stephen E. Hansen
Sweet Hall, Room 324
590 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-3090
(650) 723-1058
(650) 725-9121
hansen@Stanford.EDU