CICS 2014 Keynote Speaker

Vipin Swarup

Talk Title: Adversarial Surprise in Cyber Conflicts

Chief Scientist, Mission Assurance, MITRE's Information Security Division, The MITRE Corporation

Address & Phone Number : 7515 Colshire Drive McLean, VA 22102-7539

E-mail address : swarup@mitre.org

Biography

Dr. Vipin Swarup is the Chief Scientist in MITRE's Cyber Security Technical Center. He leads MITRE's corporate cybersecurity research program which includes over 25 research projects in cyber analytics, active cyber defense, mobile computing security, network security, and cyber resiliency. In the past, Dr. Swarup has led research projects in trust management, cross-boundary information sharing, context-aware security, security guards, and mobile agent security, and has published extensively in these and other areas. His work for agencies such as AFRL, NSA, DARPA, and OSD have resulted in significant outcomes. His security guard filter technology, called Felt, has been integrated and deployed on several military security guard products worldwide. In 2008, he played a lead role on a US Department of Defense (DOD) team that developed a DOD Science and Technology (S&T) strategy for cyber conflict defense against advanced cyber threats -- based on this strategy, DOD reshaped its funding priorities in cybersecurity research. Dr. Swarup holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.