Biologically Inspired Cyber Security
- 17:00 7th May 2014Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building
Biological systems can provide useful analogies for creating secure cyber systems. For instance, robustness and resilience in cyber networks can be achieved through dynamic compartmentalization akin to that observed during cell division, and behavior-based threat detection algorithms can examine an environment for disruptors based on their effects, rather than signatures for a known invader. Social insects offer a model for distributed computing, enabling leaderless control and coordination to solve multi-constraint threat discovery problems. Biosequences serve as information carriers, allowing the tools of proteomics and genomics to be applied to family tree analysis in software and the identification of common sequences indicative of malicious behaviors or instruction sets. This seminar will highlight operational cyber security technologies developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory based on each of these techniques.
Speaker bio
Dr. Bill Pike leads the Visual Analytics Group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, overseeing staff and research programs developing new ways of making sense of complex data for national science and security challenges. He also directs the Analysis in Motion initiative, a multi-year internal Laboratory investment to develop transformative analytics capabilities for large-scale, high-throughput data by blending human and machine reasoning capabilities in new ways.Dr. Pike has led research and development programs that have resulted in new information analysis methods in applications as varied as threat discovery, energy reliability, disaster response, cyber security, and privacy protection. He has also led the deployment of these capabilities to operational use in government and industry. He develops programs and advises government partners on visual analysis systems, distributed data-driven decision making, and human-computer interaction. He has also led the development of long-term visions for the future of information work for US Government agencies, such as http://precisioninformation.org. He previously served as the R&D coordinator for the National Visualization and Analytics Center and was the General Chair of IEEE VisWeek and the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology.
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