Microsoft Security Day at Umass Amherst

MICROSOFT SECURITY DAY AT UMASS AMHERST

Department of Computer Science

Thursday, February 2, 2006

12:00 PM

The Computer Science Building, Rooms 150 & 151

Faculty Host: Brian Levine

I am pleased to announce that on Thursday Feb 2nd, the UMass campus will host three excellent talks on security from Microsoft thanks to our MS Evangelist, Philip DesAutels. Two talks will be held at the CS Dept, and a third will be held at the Isenberg School of Management. The talks are open to all and the abstract, times, titles, and biographies of the speakers are below.

Arrive hungry: MS will be providing pizza before the first talk, and there will be security books, software, and games handed out as door prizes. Refreshments at 11:45 AM in the Computer Science Building, Room 150.

Computer Science Talks

1)"Understanding Microsoft’s Security Response Process"

Barbara Chung

12:00 – 1:00pm Room 150/151 in the CS Building

Join us for a look at the Microsoft people and processes involved in responding to security vulnerabilities with Microsoft’s Chief Security Advisor to Education.

Barbara Chung, CISSP, CISM, Chief Security Advisor for Education, Microsoft Corporation., has been with Microsoft for the past seven years, working with organizations across the span of US industries and public sector to mitigate the complex challenges that they face in the current security environment. She has presented for the Department of Homeland Security, at many state and other industry security events and expert panels. For two years she maintained a community of security professionals representing more than 600 organizations in diverse industries, ensuring their exposure to developing technologies in the field of security, and assisting them in understanding and accessing Microsoft’s security resources. She has directly supported Microsoft customers in crisis, helping them develop appropriate response plans, coordinating resources to assist in them in stabilizing, and improving their security status and response abilities. 2) "Meeting The Challenge Of Today’s Internet"

Diane Curtis

1:00pm – 1:30 Room 150/151

With the onslaught of SPAM making email almost unusable in some cases, Microsoft has responded to customer needs with a comprehensive solution to the problem. Join us for a tech talk on Microsoft’s SPAM solutions.

Diane Curtis is an Academic Developer Relations Manager at Microsoft. Diane graduated from Ohio State with a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Computer Science. She started at Microsoft as an intern on the .NET Framework. She worked as a Software Design Engineer in Test on. NET Client and later became a Program Manager on Windows Mobile and Safety Technologies. Diane recently joined the Academic Developer Relations team, and focuses her efforts on fostering student developer communities.

Isenberg School of Management Talk

3) "Committing to Your Customers"

Diane Curtis and Philip DesAutels

2:00 – 3:00, Isenberg School, Room# 112

In 2002, Microsoft faced a serious problem; its products were not meeting customer needs or expectations. The success of Microsoft’s products in the marketplace became a double-edged sword. Ubiquity resulted in an onslaught of security attacks, leading to high levels of customer dissatisfaction and loss or market share. Microsoft’s answer to this challenge was the Trustworthy Computing Initiative, a bold effort to reshape the company to customers needs. Join us for a review of this effort and how it has shaped and changed every aspect of Microsoft. Door prizes include a PDA and books on customers and knowledge management.

Philip DesAutels is the Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist for New England. Prior to taking on this role, Philip was Microsoft’s product manager for XML & Web Services. Philip left Microsoft between these two roles to study Preservation Carpentry at the prestigious North Bennett Street School in Boston. Prior to coming to Microsoft, Philip was the founder and CTO of Ereo, a content based image retrieval search engine company. Philip founded the company after working for three years as Chief Scientist for Excite@Home in the MatchLogic division. Philip was a project manager for the W3C at their MIT office. There he led the security working group, led the development and ratification of the Digital Signatures 1.0 standard and presented worldwide on a variety of topics including metadata, child protection, security and digital signatures. Philip worked for John Hancock Insurance as a member of the CIO’s Architecture team. He came to that job from the Peace Corps where he served in Uzbekistan. In Uzbekistan, Philip taught at several universities, established a microlending program, installed some of the first email nodes in the country and consulted with various government agencies. Philip was an engineer at IBM where he worked in the Enterprise Systems Division on large- scale problems including complex upgrade order processing and inventory management. Philip is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with MS and BS degrees in Industrial and Management Engineering. Philip has authored papers on statistics and Internet security.