Marek Rusinkiewicz is Senior Group Vice President and General Manager of Applied Research Laboratories at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Communication Research). The Labs carry out research in mathematical sciences, software engineering, information processing technologies, communication protocols, and mobile networks management, for Telcordia and its customers, which include most of world's major carriers and providers of telecommunication services. Before joining Telcordia, Rusinkiewicz was Vice President for Information Technology Research at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) in Austin, Texas, where he led a number of initiatives aimed at the development of next generation information technologies including, search technologies, semantic agents, and collaboration management. He leads the international activities of the Telcordia research organization, and services as the chairman for its Taiwan and Poland research centers. Rusinkiewicz is a member of International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group on Databases (WG 6.2); a founding member of International Foundation on Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS) and a member of the International Advisory Board of Japan's National Institute of Informatics. In 2006, he was appointed to the Networking and Information Technology Technical Advisory Group of President's Bush Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Although currently less active in the research community, he still keeps up with the developments of technology through his evening job as Editor-in-Chief of the World Wide Web Journal.

Dr. Rusinkiewicz will discuss NETWORK SECURITY AND INFORMATION ASSURANCE RESEARCH AT TELCORDIA APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES. Since Telcordia (formerly Bell Communication Research) was formed in 1984 as a result of the AT&T Divestiture, one of its responsibilities is to act as single point of contact with the federal government in matters dealing with national security. Today, network security and information assurance constitute a major component of research activities at Telcordia. Telcordia Applied Research (AR) Labs provide a range of R&D and consulting services to internal, government, and commercial customers. In my talk I will describe several projects carried out at AR in the areas related to cyber security, including malicious code detection, intrusion detection, denial of service mitigation, and network monitoring.