Presentation Title: Analyzing all that data: Techniques for sifting haystacks and finding needles.
Presentation Details: Previously, gathering data was a difficult task, and so simple data analysis techniques worked well. now with access to information increasing, and the need to get an even broader coverage of events, making sense of mountains of data has never been more pressing. The great risk in this scenario is missing an indicator or losing data.

This presentation will introduce you to a number of techniques for making sense of large collections of data, including sorting and clustering techniques, fuzzy matching, and trend analysis. These techniques have applicability in numerous applications, such as mail filtering and network event analysis.

About Jose:

Dr. Jose Nazario is a worm researcher and senior software engineer at Arbor Networks. Dr. Nazario’s research interests include large-scale Internet trends such as reachability and topology measurement, Internet events such as DDoS attacks and worms, source code analysis methods and datamining. He routinely writes and speaks on Internet security in forums that include NANOG, USENIX Security, BlackHat Briefings, CanSecWest and SANS. Dr. Nazario holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Nazario is also the author of the ground-breaking book entitled “Defense and Detection Strategies against Internet Worms” which offers insight into worm trends and behavior, while providing practical protection techniques. Dr. Nazario was also co-author on the book “Secure Architectures with OpenBSD”.