Cyberstrategics
Tim Bass, CISSP, is the owner of Cyberstrategics, founder of The Complex Event Processing Blog, member of (ISC)2, and a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP). Tim also serves as the founder and director of The UNIX and Linux Forums.
Tim is the former Founder and CTO of SilkRoad Inc., former Founder and Managing Director of SilkRoad Asia Co. Ltd., Principal Consultant for Network-Centric Architecture and Security, HQ USAF, Office of the CIO, Former Member of the US Federal CIO Council, Architecture and Infrastructure Committee, Former Principal Consultant for Net-Centric Operations, United States Department of Defense (DOD), Office of the Secretary of Defense, Former Principal Consultant for Networks and Network Security, United States Air Force (USAF), Air Combat Command (ACC), Former Principal Consultant for Network Security, Y2K Turnover, the United States Department of Energy (DoE), Former Principal Consultant for Information Dissemination Management (IDM), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Former Principal Internet Security Consultant to SWIFT, Chase Manhattan Bank and the Swiss Bank Corporation, Former Principal Global Architect, TIBCO Software.
His work on Internet security and cyberattack countermeasures has been featured in Popular Science Magazine (July 1999) and Federal Computer Week. He is internationally recognized as a thought leader in complex event processing (CEP), Internet security, next-generation intrusion detection and distributed multi-sensor data fusion architectures.
With over 20 years experience as an objective, highly ethical, independent IT consultant, Tim adds incredible value to just about any large, complex IT project. Kindy review his profile and many references on LinkedIn for a glimpse into his experience, references, accomplishments and capabilities.
[...] poco hemos recibido algunas críticas constructivas por parte de Tim Bass desde su blog en una entrada sobre predicción de tendencias en herramientas de monitorización. [...]
Interesting paper on Cyberspace situational Awareness you had in Signals Magazine Feb 2000. Still doing things like that?
James W. Meritt
CISSP, CISA, PMP, NSA IAM
Hi James,
Yes, I am always thinking in this area, as cyberspace situational awareness is my favorite technical topic. I am currently following machine-learning algorithms like Apache Mahout based on Hadoop/MapReduce closely. In addition, I am interested in open source monitoring and visualization tools, etc. I also closely follow what is happening in Amazon EC2, S3 and other cloud computing services as these are all pieces to the puzzle of solving complex problems in cyberspace.
Thanks for the comment and for stopping by.
Yours sincerely, Tim
I’m looking around at some of the things on the web relating to both you and data visualization. Most recently that Signals article and AF083-022TITLE: Visualization for Command and Control of Cyberspace Operations. Obviously, I’ve had a number of similar thoughts and data mining, data visualization, and cyberspace mapping tie together nicely. You have a significant head-start and I would like to learn from your experience!
USN (retired)
CISSP (4491)
Hi James,
Thanks for the kind words.
Have you read my 1999/2000 ACM paper, Intrusion Detection Systems & Multisensor Data Fusion - Creating Cyberspace Situational Awareness ?
http://www.thecepblog.com/intrusion-detection-systems-and-multisensor-data-fusion/
Yours sincerely, Tim
Hadn’t. Am. Just finished “mapping cyberspace”. MS in E.E? Mine was OR/SA. Read a few bios - interesting!
Jim
If I didn’t know your IDS interest before, I do NOW! Read that paper (thanks), the rest of the website, and am getting another look at the war.com email DoS. I’ve been more into CNA than CND for the last few years…
Jim
Hi James,
By now, then, you know that I was “that guy” who first applied the concepts of multi-sensor data fusion (MSDF) from the JDL to cyberspace situational awareness and IDS.
Yours faithfully, Tim
Looked into shared virtual space constructed from MSDL? That looks like, to my amateur assessment, that it could solve a few problems at the same time…
BTW: If you wish, I have a resume I could send (just started here in Feb - NOT looking for employment) so you could see whre I’m coming from.
Jim
Hi James,
I don’t think Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL) solves many problems, but it does provide a standard to define scenarios.
There is much more to the problem that having a standard language, frankly speaking.
Maybe we should start a new blog thread, as this page is not the optimal place to continue discussing this topic.
Yours faithfully, Tim