CERIAS Security Seminar: Threat Hunting
Description
Speaker:
Courtney Falk
CERIAS, Purdue University
Abstract: Courtney Falk will discuss his ongoing research into Pod People, the ongoing search-engine optimization spam campaign. This talk combines threat hunting and threat intelligence with real-world applications including insights into how cybercriminals work and how organizations can collaborate. All publicly-accessible indicators collected by this project are published online to contribute to the good of the commons.
About: Dr. Courtney Falk is an information security professional with over fifteen years of experience in the government, academic, and public sectors. He earned his doctorate of philosophy from Purdue University in the interdisciplinary information security program. When Courtney is not researching critical infrastructure for Purdue, he enjoys painting miniature figures and playing tabletop war games.
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
Contact Details
- Lori Floyd
- laf@purdue.edu
- (765) 494-7841