10-28-04
Lecture on internet security slated for Nov. 17 at Behrend
On Wednesday, November 17, Albert Whale,
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information
Systems Security Professional (CISSP), will give a lecture on
"Internet Security and the Butterfly Effect," to be held at 7:30 p.m.
in the Otto Behrend Science Building, room 101.
"The Internet has drawn our world into a smaller global community,"
said Whale. "My talk will examine the effects of vulnerabilities and
security on the global community. We will also explore the exploits
that permeate the Internet, our security, and the potential for
convenience and disaster."
Whale received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Penn State in
1985. He is a computer consultant in computer systems, network, and
security with more than twenty years of professional experience. Whale
is recognized as being the first consultant to achieve royalty status
(a recognition proved by his peers), in the support of HP's enterprise
management tools called OpenView. In addition to security consulting
in the Caribbean, managing an entrepreneurial spam filtering business
(www.Spam-Zapper.com), Whale is a co-founder and current president of
the Pittsburgh FBI InfraGard Member Alliance.
The "Computing in an Unsafe World" Computer Science Speaker Series is
sponsored by the Behrend Computer Science Department and the Behrend
Computer Science organization. For more information, call the Student
Activities office at (814) 898-6171.
Media Contact: Jen Town, 814-898-6522, jlt234@psu.edu