Speaker:
Dave Henthorn
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Rose-Hulman

Abstract: Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure such as power plants, dams, and chemical facilities are increasing in both intensity and sophistication, with attackers actively exploiting the cultural divide between the engineers who design and run these facilities and the cybersecurity people who protect them. At Rose-Hulman, we are building a multidisciplinary Critical Infrastructure Laboratory to bring these groups together with the goal of educating the next generation on the difficulties of designing and securing facilities vital to our national and economic security.

About: Dr. David Henthorn is an expert in biomaterials, biosensors, and polymers in medical application. His research focuses on 3D printing of biomaterials, and he is working with two fellow faculty members on a project to develop an electronic badge system to document student professional development. Dr. Henthorn also does research in the modernization of industrial control systems, including the major push to enhance the cybersecurity of our critical infrastructure

The weekly security seminar has been held every semester since spring of 1992. We invite personnel at Purdue and visitors from outside to present on topics of particular interest to them in the areas of computer and network security, computer crime investigation, information warfare, information ethics, public policy for computing and security, the computing "underground," and other related topics. More info