Network Security: New Essentials for Safeguarding Network Systems
Alan Crouch · 2007
Security consistently ranks as one of the top IT priorities and concerns year after year as evidenced by the increase in security budgets by IT. Over 90% of enterprises are investing in firewalls, anti-virus software and other protection mechanisms, yet over three-quarters of these same enterprises experience worm attacks, virus penetrations, root kit infections and the presence of spyware. Dealing with viruses, spyware and other malware reportedly costs businesses around the world billions of Euros per year in direct and indirect expenses. Our industry response thus far is a growing number of disparate security protocols and technologies which significantly increase the system maintenance costs while degrading performance. Alan Crouch, Director of Intel's Communication Technology Lab, will discuss how future technologies are being developed that will build trusted platforms without sacrificing performance. About the Speaker: As director and general manager for the Communications Technology Lab, Alan Crouch is responsible for driving Intel's network technology leadership. Lab focus areas include network processing, optical networking, network security robust networks, wireless USB, next-gen mobile wireless LAN and WAN, and wireless sensor networks. The lab is strongly committed to standards-based solutions. Members of the lab are active participants in 3GPP, IEEE, IETF, the Network Processing Forum, and many other communications and networking standards-setting bodies. Crouch has led Intel R&D efforts in network architectures since 1999. His teams have made key contributions to the Network Processing Forum and IETF ForCES network processing industry standards efforts, and the Intel(r) IXA Portability Framework. His team co-developed the Microblock software architecture for Intel(r) IXP network processors, to reduce the time and effort for developing network processing applications. More recently, Crouch's teams have delivered platform networking innovations that are being incorporated into Intel(r) I/O Acceleration Technology and Intel(r) Active Management Technology roadmaps. In addition, Crouch launched Intel's Communications Technology Lab in the Intel China Research Center, Beijing, and led advanced R&D external engagements with key networking fellow travelers Alcatel, Cisco, Ericsson, and Hewlett-Packard.