This is an online Zoom meeting which is is free and open to the public.

Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 – 6:30pm - 9pm central time

The Zoom session will open shortly before 6:30pm into the waiting room and end at 9pm (with a short review of Group business before the speaker starts), and a virtual “Meeting after the Meeting” (afterwards).

The Fountaindale Library is closed for Meetings for now.

This meeting will be run virtually on-line using a UniForum Chicago Zoom account.

RSVP Yes here on Meetup to receive an email an hour ahead of time with the Zoom meeting ID and password for the meeting.

Abstract:

Join us for this online event; your opportunity to participate in a discussion with leading computer security expert Dr. Eugene Spafford, PhD. professor of computer science at Purdue University, a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee 2003-2005, an advisor to the National Science Foundation (NSF), and an advisor to over a dozen other government agencies and major corporations.

Dr. Spafford will start with an initial presentation on how the very definition of computer security is poorly defined and not easily measurable. After that first presentation topic, we will present questions gathered earlier for the speaker to answer. A previous writeup that the speaker used for the initial presentation can be found at:
https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/news_and_events/events/security_seminar/details/index/67ct64b544e02t412u8mivto5r

We will collect questions for Dr Spafford's second part of the meeting from the Zoom Chat functionality during the first part of the meeting during his initial presentation, so please come prepared to the meeting with those questions about computer security. Extra questions might be further collected during the second part of the meeting as we go along.

This should be an event of interest to everyone interested in computer security. Possible items of discussion might include access control systems, authentication, malware, viruses, authorization, firewalls, internet security, NAT and TCP and UDP hole punching, intrusion detection systems, mobile secure gateway are but a few of the areas that may be of interest.

A Bio of Dr. Eugene Spafford, PhD:

Eugene Spafford, nicknamed Spaf, is an American professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer security expert. At Purdue, Spafford has a joint appointment as a professor of computer science and as professor of electrical and computer engineering, where he has served on the faculty since 1987.

He is also a professor of philosophy, and a professor of communication. He is also Executive Director of Purdue's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), and was the founder and director of COAST Laboratory, which preceded CERIAS.

Spaf has a list of honors and awards too long to list here however it should be mentioned that he has been elected to the National Cybersecurity Hall of Fame, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award and the Association for Computer Machinery’s President's Award.

In the early days of the Internet in 1990 "Spaf" founded Yucks digest, “a moderated list of the bizarre, the unusual, the possibly insane, and the (usually) humorous.”

Getting to the meeting:

This June 2020 General meeting of UniForum Chicago (time as described with the meeting's title above) will NOT be at a physical location, but will be a virtual on-line meeting using a planned Zoom meeting for which the Zoom URL for connecting to the meeting will be emailed to those that RSVP'd Yes on Meetup.com for this meeting at least one hour before the start of the meeting (That means RSVPing yes by 5pm-ish for the meeting to officially start at 6:30pm).