[CSENews] [Fwd: CSE Colloquium Friday, February 6: Kyle Ingols]

[Teresa Isela VanderSloot]

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Subject: 	CSE Colloquium Friday, February 6: Kyle Ingols
Date: 	Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:40:36 -0500
From: 	glasskim <glasskim at cse.msu.edu>
To: 	eng_all at egr.msu.edu
CC: 	Pentland at bus.msu.edu, steinfie at msu.edu, larose at msu.edu



  *Practical Attack Graph Generation for Network Defense*


    Spring 2009 CSE Colloquium Series <http://www.cse.msu.edu/?Pg=143&Col=2>

*Kyle Ingols*

Technical Staff Member
Information Systems Technology Group
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Friday, February 6
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
3105 Engineering Building 
<http://www.maps.msu.edu/interactive/index.php?location=eb>

Host: Alex Liu <http://www.cse.msu.edu/%7Ealexliu/>


      Abstract

Attack graphs, a valuable tool for network defenders, illustrate paths 
an attacker can use to gain access to a targeted network. Defenders can 
then focus their efforts on patching the vulnerabilities and 
configuration errors that allow the attackers the greatest amount of 
access. MIT Lincoln Laboratory has created a new type of attack graph, 
the multiple-prerequisite graph, that scales nearly linearly as the size 
of a typical network increases. The Laboratory has built a prototype 
system using this graph type. The prototype uses readily available 
source data to automatically compute network reachability, classify 
vulnerabilities, build the graph, and recommend actions to improve 
network security. The prototype has been tested on an operational 
network with over 250 hosts, where it helped to discover a previously 
unknown configuration error. It can evaluate large, enterprise networks 
using commodity hardware in seconds and has processed complex simulated 
networks with over 50,000 hosts in under four minutes.


      Biography

Kyle Ingols is a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln 
Laboratory, where he works on computer network defense and tamper 
resistance.


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