Dear Colleague,

This is to remind you about the following event.

Regards, - Durgesh, for ACM Mumbai

ACM Seminar Friday, September 21, 2001 - 6:30 p.m. Title: Firewalls, simple & easy: IPFilter Speaker: Vivek Nallur (NCST) Venue: Lecture Theatre, NCST, Juhu

Abstract: "The internet was created as an experiment. The experiment has failed" - Tsutomu Shimomura The Internet is currently a system administrator's nightmare, what with snoopy folks perennially sniffing around the place looking for systems to break into and steal the 'family silver'. What began as a dream for scientists, researchers and artists, has become a nightmare for the knights in geek's clothing. One of the more potent weapons at the disposal of these knights is the firewall. Its etymological roots unknown, the current usage stems from Steve Bellovin's email to Phil Karn regarding some security device. The first recorded usage in print is in Stafford and Garfinkel's book on Practical UNIX Security, published in 1990. Simply put, a firewall is a system that enforces an access control policy between two networks. This seminar explores the installation and usage of a commonly used firewall, IPFilter.

About the Speaker: Vivek Nallur passes under the guise of a scientist in the KBCS division at NCST. He pretends to be pre-occupied with issues in Data Mining, Chaos Theory and Genetic Algorithms, whilst ogling at his beloved computer all day. He's passionate about girls, patterns and reading (in no particular order).