Collaborative Computer Security and Trust Management

Jean-Marc Seigneur is assistant professor at the University of Geneva. His main research topic is computational trust and reputation management. He is also chief research officer of Venyo, which is a leading company in online reputation services. He has co-authored more than 45 scientific publications and worked on many multi-million euros R&D projects funded by the European Union. Adam Slagell is a senior security engineer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois where he leads the LAIM (Log Anonymization and Information Management) working group as the National Science Foundation (NSF) PI on a grant investigating effects of log anonymization on security, privacy, and usability. He is also the security architect and policy developer for the Blue Waters petascale computing project to build the world's fastest supercomputer in 2011. Mr. Slagell has worked on collaboration between the NCSA and the FBI, served as a co-chair of the SECOVAL workshop, and been a reviewer for IEEE journals and the NSF. His research interests and past projects include work in security visualization, applied cryptography, secure group communication, secure e-mail list services, digital forensics, honeypots, risk analysis, and intrusion detection.