A pessimist's view of the Security "industry": A fireside chat
- 17:00 18th March 2014 ( week 9, Hilary Term 2014 )Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building
Steve is an alumni of the Oxford CS department (well -- the Computing Laboratory) where his primary research was the theory and application of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) - a machine learning technique that is comfortable learning patterns in symbolic logic.
One application of ILP was a collaboration with a "computer-hacker" interested in detecting intrusions. After a "Eureka" moment in the lab, the results were spun-out into a Database Security Company -- Secerno -- which built database firewalls that learned how to protect Relational Databases. Secerno was acquired by Oracle Corporation.
His entrepreneurial journey has taken Steve through all aspects of the IT security sector and he has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. He remains pessimistic about IT security.
In this fire-side style discussion, he will propose a list of topics for the audience to select from and he will give his views on the topics as time permits.