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EDUCAUSE Live! June 21, 2006 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

A Tale of Two Tracks: Social Engineering Your Students and Detecting Bots with DNS

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Justin Azoff
Network Performance Analyst
University at Albany, SUNY

As network performance analyst, Justin Azoff is responsible for monitoring routers, hubs, and switches and scanning end-user machines for students, faculty, and staff on all three SUNY Albany campuses and satellite locations. His responsibilities also include intrusion detection and vulnerability scanning, and he strives to automate as many of these processes as possible. Azoff joined Information Technology Services after graduating from the SUNY Albany in 2004 with a degree in computer science. Prior to being employed as professional staff, he worked as a student assistant for ResNet Services.

Martin Manjak
Information Security Officer
University at Albany, SUNY

Marty Manjak was recently appointed acting ISO for the SUNY Albany after serving as director of the Residential Network program for 11 years. At ResNet, he oversaw the growth of the progam from five halls and a few hundred participants to an essential, campus-wide service used by more than 7,000 residential students. In addition to his administrative duties, Manjak teaches an undergraduate course and guest lectures. He taught at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City for nearly 15 years. From the Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), Manjak holds a GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC) and is currently working on two additional certifications from GIAC.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Justin Azoff and Martin Manjak, and the topic will be "A Tale of Two Tracks: Social Engineering Your Students and Detecting Bots with DNS."

High-speed connections and lots of personal computers make campus networks target-rich environments for malware and botnet recruitment. Without a policy enforcement tool to manage student connections, SUNY Albany has to rely on both user education and a creative use of DNS to reduce and detect compromised machines on our campus. This presentation will examine the social and technical approaches used to accomplish these goals.

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