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Computer Science Department Colloquium
11/11/2014 11:00 am
CoRE A(Room 301)

From the Enterprise Perimeter to a Secure Cloud

Ed Amoroso, AT&T

Faculty Host: Thu D. Nguyen

Abstract

The modern firewall-based perimeter for the enterprise is shown to have stepwise degraded during the past two decades to a largely ineffective cyber security approach. Suggestions and considerations are made regarding the use of a secure cloud to reduce this risk.

Bio

Ed Amoroso is Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at AT&T, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stevens, and an AT&T Fellow.  His primary responsibilities lie in the real-time protection of AT&T’s vast enterprise, network, and computing infrastructure, including its emerging LTE mobile network and cloud services. Ed’s team is presently focused on creating innovative means for reducing the risk of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS), mobile malware, and cloud infrastructure attacks targeting AT&T and its customers. Ed’s team works specifically in the area of advanced threat analytics, virtualization of cloud resident security protections, enterprise security policy and architecture, and advanced detection of malware.

Ed holds the BS degree in physics from Dickinson College, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Stevens Institute of Technology. Ed is also a graduate of the Columbia Business School. In 2000, Ed was awarded the AT&T Labs Technology Medal and was elected an AT&T Fellow in 2009.