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Research Staff Member CA Labs, CA One CA Plaza Islandia, NY 11749 |
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Brief Bio I am currently a Research Staff Member at CA Labs in New York, where I am pursuing research projects in enterprise security that have strategic value for CA, in collaboration with other university faculty and students. I received my PhD in May, 2006, and I spent the last three years of my degree working at CERT, Carnegie Mellon University, where I performed research in network security. I have also worked on access control for WebSphere while at the IBM Toronto Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS). Previous to my PhD studies, I have six years of experience in systems administration and management. I can still be reached at gates@cs.dal.ca |
Research Interests
My research interests are in the areas of of network security and traffic analysis. More specifically, I am interested in network situational awareness. As part of my Ph.D. dissertation, I developed a model and detector for co-ordinated port scans, which has been validated through an implementation. The true and false positive rates for the detector have been modeled using regression equations. Testing has shown that these models can predict how well the detector will perform given previously unseen operating conditions, including deploying the detector across different networks. More details are available in my dissertation and research statement. My thesis advisor was Jacob Slonim, and my advisory committee members were Gord Agnew, Michael McAllister and John McHugh. My external examiner was Vern Paxson. My other research interests, which can be seen in my publications, include the psychology of security professionals and privacy issues surrounding personal informaiton.
Cool News
16 September 2011: Photos from my trip to Kenya this summer are now up - enjoy! :)
23 September 2011: Check out a FUN video on YouTube about one of my research projects! I even have an avatar in it, and it's my voice that's used for two lines! (It's only a 2 minute video, so click on the link. You know you want to!!)
3 October 2011: Added a few more personal pics
30 November 2011: And another video, this one of a panel I was on at Grace Hopper.
