Topic

Researching Security in Organizations

Security and privacy issues have been significant over the years, perhaps even more in the recent years, with the dramatic developments in technologies and their application in organizations, affecting every part of our society. These trends are set to continue in the future even more with the ubiquitous access and delivery of information and services to users and enterprises by distributed applications and mobile software agents over wired and wireless networks using a range of mobile devices. In this session, Vijay will reflect on some of the challenges involved in the design of secure systems in such a pervasive mobile distributed environment and their deployment in organizations. He will describe some of the research projects that he has been involved with in these areas and his experience in researching in security both in academia and in industrial research labs over a number of years. He will discuss some of the challenges involved in transforming research ideas and
prototypes to commercial systems.

About Vijay Varadharajan

Professor & Microsoft Chair in Computing, Macquarie University, Australia

Email: vijay@ics.mq.edu.au 

Web: http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/gen/person/vijay.html 

Vijay Varadharajan is the Microsoft Chair and Professor of Computing at Macquarie University. He is also the Director of Information and Networked System Security Research. He is also the Technical Board Director of Computer Science, Australian Computer Society. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Sydney.

Previous to this, he was the Foundation Professor and Chair of Computing and IT at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, from Jan.1995 till Feb.2001. He was also the Head of School of Computing and IT at University of Western Sydney, Nepean and the Director of the Distributed System and Network Security Research. Prior to taking up this appointment, Professor Varadharajan was responsible for worldwide Security Research at corporate Hewlett-Packard Labs based in Europe at HP Labs.,UK. He has worked also with various HP Divisions in the US, UK, Germany, France and Italy. He has been with HP since 1988. Prior to HP, he was a Research Manager at British Telecom Research Labs. U.K., from 1987 till 1988. From 1985 till 1987, he was Research Fellow and Lecturer in Computer Science at Plymouth and Reading Universities. He did his Ph.D in Computer and Communication Security in the U.K in 1984, which was sponsored by BT Research Labs. He did his Electronic Engineering degree from Sussex University, UK (1978-1981). He has won several awards and was awarded the Best Student in Each Year of the Degree Program. He was also awarded the 1981 Prize of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, IEE, for outstanding performance at Sussex University and the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals Award (UK).

Professor Varadharajan has technically led, managed and successfully delivered on numerous projects in Secure Systems funded by European Commission, Hewlett-Packard Labs., SERC/EPSRC and British Telecom Labs. in the UK and USA, and Australian Research Council Grants and University Grants as well as sponsored projects from Fujitsu, Microsoft and other industries. He has also acted as consultant and has been architect for several projects in computing, financial and telecom organizations in the UK, US and more recently in Australia. He has also acted as an Expert for European Union and worked with the UK Dept. of Trade and Industry, and has worked several European Research Projects such as COST, EUREKA and ESPIRIT. Vijay has also been a member of several International Standards activities such as ISO, ECMA, OSF, CCITT/ITU, IEEE, British and Australian Standards and the European Union. He is currently the Australian Delegate on IFIP Technical Committee TC 11 on Information Security.

Professor Varadharajan has published more than 250 papers in International Journals and Conferences, has co-authored and edited 8 books on Security, Networks and Distributed Systems and holds 4 patents. His research work over the years has contributed to the development of several secure commercial systems in the areas of Secure Distributed Applications, Secure Network Systems, Security Tools, Secure Mobile Systems as well as Cryptographic and Smart Card based Systems. His current areas of research interest include security in high speed networks, security for large distributed systems, security policies and management in distributed applications, Internet security, secure electronic commerce and payment models, secure mobile agents, wireless security, security models and architectures and security protocols.

He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Information Security, Springer-Verlag (Germany), ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security (USA) and in the Board of Computer and Communication Security Abstracts (UK). He has been a member of the Board of Advisors in Trusted Computing Platform Association (TCPA) and is on the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board (TCAAB). He has been an invited Visiting Professor at INRIA Research Labs in France, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Indian Institute of Science and Visiting Scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), a Fellow of the IEE (FIEE), a Fellow of the IMA (FIMA), a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Engineers (FIEAust), a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, a Senior Member of IEEE and is listed in Marquis of Who is Who in the World.