National Webcast Initiative
Application Security
Thursday, April 9, 2009
2:00pm - 3:00pm (Eastern)
Presenter
Alan Paller
Director of Research
SANS Institute
Alan Paller is the Director of Research for the SANS Institute, responsible for projects including the Internet Storm Center (the Internet's early warning system with 500,000 sensors around the world) and SANS other consensus research projects such as the summary of the most critical new vulnerabilities discovered each week. He also edits NewsBites, the summary of the most important news stories in security that goes to 205,000 people twice each week. He says his most satisfying activity is finding people who have solved important security problems and helping others learn about those people and their discoveries. In 2001 the President named Alan as one of the original members of the National Infrastructure Assurance Council, and in 2005 the Federal CIO Council chose him as its annual Azimuth Award winner recognizing his singular vision and outstanding service to federal information technology. Alan earned degrees in computer science and engineering from Cornell and MIT.
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