Security is of critical importance for the successful deployment of sensor networks, since it can ensure properties such as data integrity, secrecy, and availability. We have the unique opportunity to ensure security even for early deployments of sensor networks, which could avoid alarming news articles and help fend off corporate and consumer security and privacy fears. In this talk, I will discuss the most important security issues in sensor networks, present realistic attacker models, comment on industry trends for achieving security, and highlight present and future research directions.

Adrian Perrig is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and spent three years during his Ph.D. degree at University of California at Berkeley. He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Adrian's research interests revolve around building secure systems and include Internet security, security for sensor networks and mobile applications.
More information about his research is available at:
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian/
Adrian is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2004, the IBM faculty fellowship in 2004 and 2005, and the Sloan research fellowship in 2006.
The Japanese version of his writing the “Secure Broadcast Communication in Wired and Wireless Networks” has been published in Japan.

While information security is a tumultuous industry filled with daily changes and crises, actual advances in the state of the art are rare. This talk attempts to move past the hubbub of the latest virus or Patch Tuesday by examining the undercurrents that will shape the industry for years to come.
The presentation starts off with a technical view of two new, experimental techniques: attacking programs by taking advantage of uninitialized variables via overlapping stack frames and protecting from buffer overflows using false data.
Moving up a layer of abstraction, the focus will shift to recent trends in infosec such as the effect of XP SP2, the increase in client exploitation and the impact of Sarbanes Oxley.
A discussion of significant non-technical barriers to good security such as budget, politics, perception and apathy will round out the main body of the presentation.
Finally, the conclusion will examine the root cause of security problems and discuss how that information can be leveraged for both attack and defense purposes in today's world.

Mr.Bortnak is an expert in information security, open source technology and IT solutions. Having worked in the computer industry for over 15 years, he has performed a wide range of consulting tasks, primarily focusing on the telecom and financial industries. As a developer of strategic solutions, Mr.Bortnak draws upon an expansive background encompassing security auditing, penetration testing, and the design of security infrastructures for a wide variety of clients.