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Thumbs Up for Security - 2009 Security Overview Dr. Charles Tappert ( http://www.csis.pace.edu/~ctappert/ ) Dr. Allen Stix ([email protected]) Seidenberg School of CSIS Pace University
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Thumbs Up for Security Overview. Dr. Charles Tappert ( http://www.csis.pace.edu/~ctappert/ ) Dr. Allen Stix ([email protected]) Seidenberg School of CSIS Pace University. Agenda. Biometrics – Store/Bank/Medical Apps (Video) Authentication versus identification - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Thumbs Up for Security - 2009
Thumbs Up for Security Overview
Dr. Charles Tappert (http://www.csis.pace.edu/~ctappert/)Dr. Allen Stix ([email protected])
Seidenberg School of CSISPace University
Thumbs Up for Security - 2009
Agenda
Biometrics – Store/Bank/Medical Apps (Video) Authentication versus identification
Pace University Security Center of Excellence Handwriting Forgery
Handwriting Forgery Quiz System Handwriting Personality Assessment (CIA
related) NYC Subway Security re Assaults (NYC MTA) Internet Security Issues
E.g., social networks (related NYPD homicide case) Biometrics
Face, iris, handwriting, voice, keystroke
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Pace University Security Center of Excellence
National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education Designated by National Security Agency and
Department of Homeland Security Center developed
To explore computer vulnerabilities to improve prevention and detection techniques
For education and training in information security To practice security throughout Pace community
News video of Pace student recovering stolen laptop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29HGn0qWcTQ
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Handwriting Personality Assessment
Goal: automate a method used by CIA to assess potential for undercover workSpycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda, Dutton, 2008
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Handwriting: Adolf Hitler & Ted Bundy
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NYC Subway Security re Assaults
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Biometrics – FaceBiometrics – Face
A robot identifies a suspect, from the movie “Minority Report.”
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Man
Woman
Train
Test
Train
Test
Left RightBiometrics – IrisBiometrics – Iris
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Iris Authentication: Image ProcessingIris Authentication: Image Processing
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Internet Security – Social Networks
Social network sites are popular Myspace, Second Life, Facebook, others
Understand security issues / find solutions Java scripts & PHP can retrieve user data
Related NYPD homicide case Two people met on a social network site,
agreed to meet, and one was killed
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Research Day
Annual internal conference every spring Provides students and faculty the opportunity to
present their research Research Day 2009
http://csis.pace.edu/~ctappert/srd2009/schedule.htm Contains papers in sessions on
Assorted Topics in Security Software Engineering Biometrics Data Mining Information Technology
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Biometrics – Keystroke System for Long-Text Input
World’s best system for long-text input
Developed over past 4 years 10 semesters of project work 3 completed doctoral dissertations
For authentication/identification apps Authenticate online test takers Identify senders of inappropriate email
Additional slides if time permits
