Huntsville, Ala., June 4, 2015 — Sentar Inc. announced today that one of its Sr. Information Assurance Analysts, Al Underbrink, will be presenting at the Army Research Office’s Cyber Deception Workshop, to be held at George Mason University from July 28-29, 2015. Attendees will include government, academia and business professionals throughout the cyber security community.
Al will speak on the topic of “Effective Cyber Deception”. This presentation will discuss various cyber deception techniques and potential avenues to consider including active and passive deception techniques. Active cyber deception can involve interactive engagement against a real time adversary while passive deceptions can involve “setting traps for malicious users”. Blending both can be a very effective cyber security approach; possibly using a passive deception to trigger the active deception. Other approaches and challenges will be explored in detail including network reconnaissance sensing and anti-reconnaissance defense challenges as well as key considerations such as differentiation between a true potential adversary and a friendly users ‘false positive’ detection to avoid friendly fire or collateral damage.
The presentation was developed by Al Underbrink, with participation from various other Sentar Subject Matter Experts.