Keynote: The Network as a Mobility Security Platform
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The network can be a powerful platform at the core of 
an advanced mobility security architecture.  There are 
several unique benefits of using the network to provide 
security.  Virtually all traffic good and bad traverses 
the network.  Also, the network sees traffic from many 
places and can correlate data to find problems.  The 
network has unlimited battery and processing power, is 
independent of end devices, and cannot easily be circumvented 
(as can software on devices).  

AT&T is investing significant research resources in order 
to realize the vision of the network as a mobility security 
platform.  Project Marconi is instrumenting the mobility 
network to be able to detect and act upon malicious traffic.  
Project Saturn / Smart Mobile Computing will provide a more 
secure environment for mobile devices that today can bypass 
the protection of a security perimeter.  And, a new host-assisted, 
network-based architecture will enable fine grained detection, 
mitigation, and recovery on mobile devices.  Current research 
challenges include determining the theoretical subset of attacks 
that can be detected in the network, and defining algorithms 
to do this at an extreme scale in near real time. 


Speaker Bio
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Gus is an Executive Director of Technology Security in AT&T.  
Gus leads the AT&T Security Research Center under the AT&T 
Chief Security Officer  Ed Amoroso. He has been working on 
security since 1998 starting with AT&T WorldNet security  
AT&T’s first consumer Internet service. Gus has had responsibility 
for defining the security architecture and security requirements 
for key AT&T IP Services such as AT&T Business and Consumer VoIP 
Services. Gus began working at AT&T Bell Labs (later AT&T Labs) in 
1988 doing design and development of automatic photonic manufacturing 
systems.  He has also contributed to AT&T in the areas of robust 
design of wireless devices and systems, and service delivery. 
Before joining AT&T, Gus designed digital control systems for 
General Electric Aircraft Engines. Gus has a PhD in Electrical 
Engineering from Columbia University.  He has a BSME and MSE 
from MIT.