Publicado em: 23/06/2014

Palestra com Prof. Andreas Mauthe – Lancaster University

No dia 27, sexta-feira, às 12h45min, o Prof. Andreas Mauthe – Lancaster University, ministrará a palestra intitulada “Network and System Resilience”, no Auditório Prof. Castilho, do INF.

 Série de Seminários do Instituto de Informática da UFRGS

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SEXTA-FEIRA, 27 de junho de 2014

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Horário: 12h45min

Duração: 1h

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Local: Auditório Prof. Castilho

Instituto de Informática, UFRGS

Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Bloco IV

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Palestrante: Prof. Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University

Title: Network and System Resilience

Networks and systems are constantly challenged by unexpected events, malicious attacks or accidental misconfigurations and mis-management. In order to better protect this part of our critical infrastructure the ability to detect anomalies and to remediate against them has to become a core feature of network and system management. One of the major causes of anomalies and threats is malware. With Cloud environments rapidly becoming the key service infrastructure for a number of business domains they are now also becoming the target of malicious activities. The immediate detection of malware is crucial in order to prevent damage that could be done to a particular service, and also the overall infrastructure. Hence, a resilience management structure should not only look at specific network aspects but also consider the end system itself. This presentation introduces the problem space and the concept of a multi-level resilience (specifically in terms of active detection and co-ordinated remediation) within an overall framework for a better network and system protection. In order to deal with these challenges a resilience architecture residing alongside the Network Management and  Cloud Management infrastructure is being proposed. Within this architecture there is a number of components dealing with the analysis of network traffic as well as virtual machine activities. Anomaly detection techniques are used to get early warnings about potential malware activities in order to remediate against such infestations and prevent them from spreading. An important aspect of this framework is policy based resilience mechanisms. These have first been devised as network resilience functionality and are now being transferred into the Cloud space. Network and system aspects together form the overall framework for a better detection and protection within this domain.

Short bio:

Dr. Andreas Mauthe is Reader in Networked Systems at the School of Computing and Communications (SCC), Lancaster University, UK. Further, he is TUD Research Fellow at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. His research focus is in two areas within the networking and systems domain, i.e. Network and Networked Systems Management, and Multimedia Systems. In the former the main aspects of his research are resilience mechanisms for a better threat detection and protection of networks and distributed systems (such as Cloud environments), and Autonomic Network Management. In the area of Multimedia Systems his current research focus is on Quality of Experience (QoE) and the Delivery and Content Centric Networking. He has (co-)authored more than 80 peer-reviewed papers published in international journals, conferences and workshops. He is also author of a textbook on Professional Content Management Systems. Andreas worked in industry for more than four years in various management and research positions where amongst others he was heading a development team of 28 software engineers, and was also responsible for product development and UK market strategies. He is associated editor of the Multimedia-Systems Journal, has been member of more than 50 programme committees of renowned international workshops and conferences, and has been serving as programme and general chair of a number of significant events (e.g. the SIGCOMM FhMN workshop). Further, Andreas has been reviewer and expert advisor on various national and international research programmes for the European Commission, and different funding bodies, research councils and government agencies.