Intro
Michael S. Hines (MSHINES@freh-02.adpc.purdue.edu)
5 Aug 94 11:28:29 EST
Hello, my name is Michael Hines and I am the Sr. Information Systems
Auditor at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
I am a member of the Purdue Computer Emergency Response Team, a part of
the FIRST organizaiton. We care constantly looking for tools and
techniques to assist in incident detection and system correction or system
protection. We have enough business to have a serious concern about
intrusion. With both Spafford and Currey on campus...many people think it
is fun to try to hack into these accounts, and their host systems. We
have a different opinion about "fun"... :)
We are seeing a growing use of UNIX based systems in our Admin Computing
area, as we are starting to move toward Client/Server computing.
I also montior the firewalls list (@greatcircle.com) and view that as a
"prevention" method rather than as a detection method.
I am more interested in approaches which prevent intrusion, rather than
after the fact detection. But detection is certainly important, as there
are probabily more people than are aware that their system has either been
hacked, or is currently under surveilance.
I'm looking forward to exhanging ideas with others with similar interests.
My background is BS Engineering, MS Computer Science - Purdue U. So I can
talk policy, philosophy or bits and bytes at whatever level you want to.
I'm glad to see this list come into being...
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