Dr. Cliff Stoll will talk about an intellectual property espionage case study and discuss how focused curiosity can help you develop solutions.

Dr. Cliff Stoll has had a variety of careers over his lifetime. Presently he is the CBO (Chief Bottle Officer) and founder of Acme Klein Bottles. He is also an author of 3 books: The Cuckoo’s Egg, Silicon Snake Oil, and High Tech Heretic. He was a System Administrator at Berkeley. He is also an astronomer. And as a self-proclaimed mad scientist, he has one major accomplishment that few people in the world can claim; he successfully tracked a nation state spy through the Internet. In his search for a 75 cent glitch, he highlighted problems with the network and created some unique solutions that helped the advancement of intrusion detection and digital forensics.

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