Our October meeting will feature Dirk Morris, founder & CTO of the open source network gateway company, Untangle.  The meeting will be held in Gates, room 200 on Tuesday, October 23rd at 6:45 PM.  Untangle will be providing pizza & drinks.  The slide deck from the talk is here, and the audio recording here .

 

"Dirk Morris has over seven years of technical experience and proven leadership managing development teams to successful, on-time launches in the network security field.  As Chief Architect at Akheron Technologies, Dirk invented the patent-pending High Bandwidth Transparent Vectoring used in the company's proxy firewall engine. He has also held positions as lead engineer at VerticalNet and H.L.L.C. Consulting, developing Java-based distributed monitor and intrusion detection systems.  Prior to that, Dirk worked on survivability simulations at CERT/CC (Computer Emergency Response Team), the renowned, federally-funded Center for Internet security operated by Carnegie Mellon University.  Dirk earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University."