Cyber Frontiers

This week on Cyber Frontiers Christian Johnson and Ashton Webster, hosted by Jim Collison, explain the importance of finding productive communities to learn and hone in your cybersecurity skills.  They also discuss the many available online and offline resources from which to gain additional insight about the current state of the art in digital security. Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic Perspective!   Christian Johnson, a student at the University of Maryland will bring fresh and relevant topics to the show based on the current work he does.

This week’s podcast features Christian Johnson and Ashton Webster hosted by Jim Collison as they evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of different types of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS), consider the future of anomaly and signature based detection, and finally evaluate the future of “threat detection” in cybersecurity.  Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic Perspective!   Christian Johnson, a student at the University of Maryland will bring fresh and relevant topics to the show based on the current work he does. Support the Average Guy Tech Scholarship

This week’s podcast features Christian Johnson and Ashton Webster hosted by Jim Collison as they evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of different types of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS), consider the future of anomaly and signature based detection, and finally evaluate the future of “threat detection” in cybersecurity.  Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic Perspective!   Christian Johnson, a student at the University of Maryland will bring fresh and relevant topics to the show based on the current work he does. Support the Average Guy Tech Scholarship

This week we talk news and implementation methodologies for HTTPS, take a first look at some of the newer big data top level projects at apache, and even get a bit philosophical talking about the search for IT and data analytics talent in the USA. Joined this week by a new guest and future co-host, Ashton Webster, and undergraduate in the Cybersecurity Honors College (ACES) at the University of Maryland, we have an hour of jam packed conversation that spans multiple topics in cybersecurity and big data. Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies

This week we talk news and implementation methodologies for HTTPS, take a first look at some of the newer big data top level projects at apache, and even get a bit philosophical talking about the search for IT and data analytics talent in the USA. Joined this week by a new guest and future co-host, Ashton Webster, and undergraduate in the Cybersecurity Honors College (ACES) at the University of Maryland, we have an hour of jam packed conversation that spans multiple topics in cybersecurity and big data. Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies

This week featured special guest Joe Klein, CEO of Disrupt6 and cybersecurity researcher of 30+ years. We talked all things IPv6 and the Internet of Things – with the aim of highlighting the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, the importance of making the transition, and the pros and cons of utilizing the the technologies which comprise the new era of the internet. Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic Perspective!   Christian Johnson, a student at the University of Maryland will bring fresh and relevant topics to the show

This week featured special guest Joe Klein, CEO of Disrupt6 and cybersecurity researcher of 30+ years. We talked all things IPv6 and the Internet of Things – with the aim of highlighting the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, the importance of making the transition, and the pros and cons of utilizing the the technologies which comprise the new era of the internet. Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic Perspective!   Christian Johnson, a student at the University of Maryland will bring fresh and relevant topics to the show

This week on Cyber Frontiers we talk cyber innovation, privacy, and the encrypted era of financial and informational systems with special guest Mark Goldstein, Vice President of Business Development at Insider Spyder (http://www.insiderspyder.com/) Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic Perspective!   Christian Johnson, a student at the University of Maryland will bring fresh and relevant topics to the show based on the current work he does.  Never on a schedule, but always up to date! Subscribe on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber-frontiers-average-guy/id857124890 or RSS at http://theaverageguy.tv/category/tagpodcasts/cyberfrontiers/feed or on Stitcher at

This week on Cyber Frontiers we talk cyber innovation, privacy, and the encrypted era of financial and informational systems with special guest Mark Goldstein, Vice President of Business Development at Insider Spyder (http://www.insiderspyder.com/) Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic Perspective!   Christian Johnson, a student at the University of Maryland will bring fresh and relevant topics to the show based on the current work he does.  Never on a schedule, but always up to date! Subscribe on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber-frontiers-average-guy/id857124890 or RSS at http://theaverageguy.tv/category/tagpodcasts/cyberfrontiers/feed or on Stitcher at

Christian Johnson joins Jim (@jcollison) for show #3 of Cyber Frontiers brought to you by the Average Guy Network.

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Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic Perspective!   Christian Johnson, a student at the University of Maryland will bring fresh and relevant topics to the show based on the current work he does.  Never on a schedule, but always up to date!

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Special Guest: Dr. Jim Purtilo - Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park

http://doubletap.cs.umd.edu/purtilo/

http://hyperbolic.cs.umd.edu

While Dr. Purtilo is an associate professor of computer science, he is also an expert in privacy interests, and other academic programs in business

Highlights from the Show:

18:30 – What are the multi-disciplinary aspects of cybersecurity? Where are the overlaps in academic disciplines that are relevant to answering modern challenges in cybersecurity?

27:00 – Crowd sourcing, software engineering, and how it pertains to cybersecurity.

41:00 – Big data – how does it relate to cybersecurity, and how is it shaping the privacy issues in the modern tech era?

1:00:00 – What is the value of journalism in privacy and cybersecurity? What role does journalism play in influencing privacy law in the U.S.?

Tools for Privacy on the Web from Dr. Purtilo

Ad-block Plus for Firefox - https://adblockplus.org/en/firefox - Gives you more than blocking adds, but allows filtering other objects of the DOM (Document Object Model) which might be hiding in web pages you visit.

Block Site for Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocksite/

There are tools to help you with proxy servers - not interested in naming any in particular - but generally you should have care not to trust such servers unless they are ones you run for yourself. On top of that, User Agent Switcher is probably the simplest I've found for toying with browser signatures.

Try avoiding a browser entirely sometimes - For example, some Python scripting with excellent packages like Beautiful Soup will let you manipulate traffic from a variety of hosts not necessarily where you happen to be sitting. They take some getting used to in order to manage sessions and track cookies, but a bit of investment of effort to learn how that works can pay off. All that becomes even more useful if you do it through tunnels - but know the limits of those too, since you can slip just ONCE accessing the wrong site, using a standard browser on local machine which will supply your regular host signatures, and it won't matter what tunnel, VPN or other bit of tasteful indirection you once enjoyed, you've left a breadcrumb that connects new traffic to the old in a way that anyone examining a log - in particular some trace tool - can see immediately.

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