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 Gene Spafford -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
During the early formative years of the Internet, Spafford helped develop the semi-formal process by which the newly-formed (additional info and facts about Usenet) Usenet was organized and managed as well as being influential in defining the standards of behavior governing the use of Usenet.
Spafford received his (additional info and facts about B.A.) B.A. with a double major in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from the (additional info and facts about State University of New York at Brockport) State University of New York at Brockport.
Spafford is also Executive Director of the Purdue CERIAS (Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security) and serves on a number of advisory and editorial boards.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/gene_spafford.htm   (520 words)

  
 Gene Spafford's Personal Pages: Home
Dr. Eugene Spafford is a professor of Computer Sciences and a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, where he has served on the faculty since 1987.
Spafford's current research interests are primarily in the areas of information security, computer crime investigation and information ethics.
Spaf (as he is known to his friends, colleagues, and students) is Executive Director of the Purdue CERIAS (Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security), and was the founder and director of the (superseded) COAST Laboratory.
homes.cerias.purdue.edu /~spaf   (352 words)

  
 PKIForum.com Interview - Professor Gene Spafford - Part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Spafford: A lot of the research that I've been doing myself and with some of my senior students has been more on the back end: the intrusion detection, audit trail generation, computer forensics aspects of systems.
Spafford: If it had to be a single challenge, from a societal point of view, it would be getting the everyday user who knows very little about how computers work and what security means -- and what the risks are -- to embrace and use good technology and techniques to protect their systems.
Spafford: Well, the closest that we have to that [is] some of the antivirus tools, some of the personal firewall kits and application of security patches or applying individual security scanners to know that the patches need to be put in place.
www.pkiforum.com /books/interview_spafford_1a.html   (883 words)

  
 Gene Spafford's Personal Pages: Short Bio
At Purdue, Spaf (as he is generally known) is a professor of Computer Sciences, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a professor of Philosophy (courtesy), a professor of Communication, a Professor of Technology (courtesy), and Executive Director of the Purdue University Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS).
Professor Spafford has also served as chairman of ACM's Self-Assessment Committee and of its ISEF Awards Committee, as well as served as a charter member of the Technical Standards Committee.
Dr. Spafford's primary research is on issues relating to information security, with a secondary interest in the reliability of computer systems, and the consequences of computer failures.
homes.cerias.purdue.edu /~spaf/narrate.html   (1433 words)

  
 Dr. Gene Spafford | Exploring Grand Challenges in Trustworthy Computing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Eugene Eugene H. Spafford is a professor of Computer Sciences at Purdue University, a professor of Philosophy (courtesy appointment), a professor of Communication (courtesy), a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy), and is Executive Director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security.
He has published over 100 articles and reports on his research, has written or contributed to over a dozen books, and he serves on the editorial boards of most major infosec-related journals.
Spafford is a Fellow of the ACM, Fellow of the AAAS, Fellow of the IEEE, and is a charter recipient of the Computer Society's Golden Core award.
ecommerce.ncsu.edu /seminar/spafford2.html   (502 words)

  
 PKIForum.com Interview - Professor Gene Spafford - Part 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Spafford: If the regulation goes into place to support that -- so that there are some guarantees of protection, liability and so on -- then it's a very good idea, both for individuals and for companies.
Spafford: Well there's probably going to be a range of those depending upon the value of the keys.
Spafford: We have education at a couple of different levels.
www.pkiforum.com /books/interview_spafford_2a.html   (1013 words)

  
 Dr. Gene Spafford (Eugene H. Spafford)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gene Spafford received his PhD from Georgia Tech in 1986, and joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University in 1987, where he is an associate professor.
Gene on the editorial boards of many journals, include "Computers & Security," "Journal of Information Systems Security," "Artificial Life," the "Virus Bulletin," and "Networks Security." Professor Spafford is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and is chair of the ACM Self-Assessment Committee, chair of the ISEF Awards Committee, and a member of the SIG Technical Standards Committee.
www.cise.ufl.edu /~ddd/BarrSeminar/spafford.htm   (526 words)

  
 Citations: Practical UNIX Security - Garfinkel, Spafford (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Distributed Firewalls: Traditionally, a firewall is placed between the Internet and a LAN and all communications in and out must go through it.
Typically, a bastion host is configured on the private network, with a screening router between the Internet and the private network, which only permits Internet access to the bastion host.
Cheswick discusses the the construction of a secure packet router embodying the firewall concept in [8] 5.4 The extension mechanism It would be impossible to predefine the complete set of characteristics used by all present and future scheduling....
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/11089/0   (1815 words)

  
 Simson Garfinkel & Gene Spafford
Eugene H. Spafford is a professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University.
Professor Spafford was a participant in the effort to bring the Internet Worm under control; his published analyses of that incident are considered the definitive explanations.
He has coauthored a book on computer viruses, he supervised the development of the first COPS security audit software package, and he has been a frequently-invited speaker at computer ethics and computer security events around the world.
www.oreilly.com /catalog/pus/author.html   (238 words)

  
 Simson Garfinkel & Gene Spafford
Eugene H. Spafford is on the faculty of the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University.
Professor Spafford is an active researcher in the areas of software testing and debugging, applied security, and professional computing issues.
He was a participant in the effort to bring the Internet worm under control; his published analyses of that incident are considered the definitive explanations.
www.oreilly.com /catalog/puis/author.html   (272 words)

  
 Geartest.com - Interview - Dr. Gene Spafford, Director, CERIAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Geartest.com - Interview - Dr. Gene Spafford, Director, CERIAS
Geartest.com: What kind of changes could be made from the infrastructure side to bring about the kind of security that you're talking about?
Spafford: Paradoxically, the network provides us with a great medium for many things, many of which are in conflict with each other.
geartest.com /sections/columns/int_spafford_2.html   (691 words)

  
 UNIX-C Collection from SIMTEL20 (VS0088)
Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-GROUPS.TXT A list of the available newsgroups on USENET as of 16-Oct-89.
Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-HISTORY.TXT A description of the history of USENET, where to get source code for the news software, etc. Last updated 10-Oct-89.
Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-RULES.TXT A description of the rules of conduct for USENET.
www.decus.org /libcatalog/document_html/vs0088_24.html   (954 words)

  
 The Risks Digest Volume 7: Issue 70
This is an updated description of how the worm works (note: it is technically a worm, not a virus, since it does not attach itself to other code {that we know about}): All of our Vaxen and some of our Suns here were infected with the worm.
Gene Spafford Thu, 03 Nov 88 21:20:10 EST
Gene Spafford Thu, 03 Nov 88 22:04:15 EST
catless.ncl.ac.uk /Risks/7.70.html   (2525 words)

  
 usenet.hist by subject
Gene Spafford Thu, 11 Oct 90 22:20:32 EST
Gene Spafford Thu, 11 Oct 90 23:15:15 EST
Gene Spafford Thu, 11 Oct 90 22:30:16 EST
communication.ucsd.edu /bjones/Usenet.Hist/Nethist/subject.html   (1530 words)

  
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The command for that in nn is a capital Z. Hit it and you'll see something like this: Gene Spafford: Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette Original-author: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Archive-name: emily-postnews/part1 Last-change: 30 Nov 91 by brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) **NOTE: this is intended to be satirical.
Archive-name: what-is-usenet/part1 Original from: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Last-change: 19 July 1992 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) The first thing to understand about Usenet is that it is widely misunderstood.
No matter how many times somebody like Gene Spafford posts periodic messages to ignore them or spend your money on something more sensible (a donation to the local Red Cross, say), somebody manages to post a letter asking readers to send cards to poor little Craig.
www-swiss.ai.mit.edu /projects/info/bdgtti-1.01.info-4   (7137 words)

  
 Spafford, Spofford, Spofforth Family History and Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
An article about the ship on which John Spofford sailed when he made his trip to New England from Yorkshire in 1638.
This is a RootsWeb mailing list that provides a convenient means of interacting with others who are actively researching various branches of families that spell their name SPOFFORD, SPAFFORD, SPOFFORTH, SPAFARD or SPAFORD.
Gene is a distant cousin and does many interesting things at Purdue University with computers, security and the internet.
members.aol.com /gamelbar   (455 words)

  
 CERIAS - COAST Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
CERIAS boasts an impressive beginning with roots in a research group established in the Computer Sciences Department at Purdue University in 1991.
Created out of the research of professors Eugene Spafford and Samuel Wagstaff, Jr., the small research team investigated issues of computer and network security.
Through initial funding from Sun Microsystems, Schlumberger, Bell Northern Research (BNR, now NorTel), and Hughes Laboratories, COAST (Computer Operations, Audit and Security Technologies) was officially born.
www.cerias.purdue.edu /about/history/coast   (661 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This version added several new features as requested by users, and fixed all known, reported bugs to that time.
(Tripwire v1.1: Gene Kim & Gene Spafford, Purdue University, 1993) file: /pub/tools/admin/Tripwire/Tripwire-1.2.tar.gz (299831 Bytes) This is the newest release of Tripwire.
(Tripwire v1.2: Gene Kim & Gene Spafford, Purdue University, 1994) file: /pub/tools/admin/Tripwire/Tripwire-SANS.ps.gz (38071 Bytes) Experiences with Tripwire: Using Integrity Checkers for Intrusion Detection / Gene H. Kim & Eugene H. Spafford.
ftp.sunet.se /pub/security/tools/admin/Tripwire/01-README   (251 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Web Security & Commerce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Garfinkel and Spafford, longtime Net veterans, overturn a lot of misconceptions about online security in a commonsense book that is easily accessible to even nontechnical readers.
Their goal is to lay the foundation for securing the three parts of a system: the Web server and its data; the information that travels between server and user; and the user's own computer and the information stored there.
Simson Garffinkel and Gene Spafford, concludes that a Secure Web Server is one that is resistant to a determined attack over the Internet or from corporate insider.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1565922697   (1376 words)

  
 Gene Spafford's Personal Pages: Research and Papers
Mehmet Sahinoglu, I. Baltaci, and Eugene H. Spafford;
Taimur Aslam, Ivan Krsul and Eugene H. Spafford;
Saurabh Bagchi, Bingrui Foo, Yu-Sung Wu, Yu-Chun Mao and Eugene H. Spafford;
homes.cerias.purdue.edu /~spaf/professional.html   (1423 words)

  
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP From: spaf@arthur.cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newusers Subject: List of Moderators (Last changed: 23 September 1987) Message-ID:
These are groups which usually have one or more individuals (acting as editors and/or moderators) who must approve articles before they are published to the net.
Original-from: Gene Spafford (spaf@purdue.edu) [Most recent change: 10 December 1987 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] A number of moderated groups exist on the net.
www.panix.com /~josephb/newsgroups/history/moderator-lists/1987-4m.txt   (4444 words)

  
 EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet - Navigating Usenet with nn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The command for that in nn is a capital Z. Hit it and you'll see something like this:
Gene Spafford: Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette Original-author: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Archive-name: emily-postnews/part1 Last-change: 30 Nov 91 by brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) **NOTE: this is intended to be satirical.
If you do not recognize it as such, consult a doctor or professional comedian.
www.ece.umr.edu /general/Internet_Users_guide/eeg_70.html   (1293 words)

  
 Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet - Usenet: the Global Watering Hole
Gene Spafford: Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette Original-author: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Archive-name: emily-postnews/part1 Last-change: 30 Nov 91 by brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Article 154 (20 more) in news.announce.newusers (moderated): From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.admin,news.answers Subject: What is Usenet?
The first thing to understand about Usenet is that it is widely misunderstood.
www.cs.indiana.edu /docproject/bdgtti/bdgtti_7.html   (3981 words)

  
 Simson L. Garfinkel Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Practical UNIX and Internet Security, 3rd Edition, co-authored with Gene Spafford and Alan Schwartz.
Web Security, Privacy and Commerce, with Gene Spafford.
Practical UNIX and Internet Security, co-authored with Gene Spafford 1996.
www.simson.net /pubs.php   (772 words)

  
 BookHq: Practical UNIX and Internet Security by Simson Garfinkel,Gene Spafford ( 1565921488 )
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The 10-digit ISBN# is typically found on the back of your book.
www.bookhq.com /compare/1565921488.html   (123 words)

  
 Security Assessment of IP-based Networks: A Holistic Approach (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
@techreport{ tripunitara1999holistic, author = "Mahesh V. Tripunitara and Partha Dutta and Gene Spafford", title = "Security Assessment of IP-based Networks: A Holistic Approach", year = 1999, instuition = "CERIAS, Purdue University", address = "1315 Recitation building, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-1315, USA", number = "CERIAS TR-99/02", url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/tripunitara99security.html" }
Observing Reusable Password Choices - Eugene Spafford (1992)
OPUS: Preventing Weak Password Choices - Spafford (1991)
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /tripunitara99security.html   (450 words)

  
 HNS - Linux Planet talks to Gene Spafford about OS security
To most Linux enthusiasts, the answer is obvious: open source means more people can look for bugs and a faster dissemination of bug fixes.
But noted security expert Gene Spafford says that this may not necessarily be true.
According to the Purdue professor of computer science and co-author of Practical Unix & Internet Security, good security begins with good design and neither Windows nor Linux have much to brag about in that category.
www.net-security.org /news.php?id=1237   (327 words)

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