Dr. Nina Taft

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  Nina Taft

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  The homogenous security approach is quick and easy, says Nina Taft, a researcher at Intel Research Berkeley, but because standard software doesn't take into account different people's patterns of computer use, it can produce false positives and entirely miss some attacks.
  
  "One reason security breaches are so rampant is that most of our machines look the same," says Taft.They have the same operating systems, same applications, same protocols, and same Internet traffic thresholds in the security settings, she says.
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  Taft has found that people's habits are significantly different when they use company laptops to log in to networks other than the company's."Ninety percent of people have quite a different behavior when they're at work than when they're at home," she says.Tying different traffic thresholds to different location profiles could improve security software's ability to detect compromised machines.
  
  "I think the basic takeaway is, if you can be really precise in capturing user behavior, you can make the work of the attackers much harder," Taft says.In order to successfully infect a machine that maintained a number of different usage profiles, a malicious hacker would need to know when each applied and what its traffic threshold was."You limit the range of possibilities they have for succeeding," Taft says.

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  Intel Researcher Nina Taft says she was inspired by a newspaper article on how diversity in nature helps organisms thwart the threat of viruses. Her application of principles of biodiversity and her investigation into personalizing security, user by user, could reduce attacks in enterprise networks.
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  Connected Social MediaConnected Social Media, Corporate, Intel, Security, Technologybiodiversity, Intel, Jason Lopez, Nina Taft

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  Dr. Nina Taft
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  AUTHOR BIO: Nina Taft is a senior researcher at Intel Research Berkeley. After completing her PhD at UC Berkeley, Nina did a postdoc at the University of Paris VI. She then spent 4 years at SRI working on routing and congestion control. Following that she spent 5 years in Sprint's IP Research group, where her worked focused on traffic engineering problems, including traffic characterization, prediction, and estimation as well as capacity planning and routing. At Intel, her work is currently focused on enterprise traffic modeling, distributed monitoring, and network security problems. She is an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Networking, serves on the steering committee of the Internet Measurement Conference, and is PC co-chair for ACM SIGCOMM 2007.

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  Nina Taft is a senior research scientist at Intel Research Berkeley. Her research has focused on networking problems such as routing, protocol design, capacity planning for ISP networks, and network reliability. Nina's approach has centered on collecting Internet traffic measurements, characterizing the data, and using the information to better design networks. As such she has studied the application of both optimization and data mining to develop methodologies for data-driven network design. Nina is considered one of the pioneers of the field of Internet traffic matrix estimation, having contributed both first and second generation techniques as well as having developed applications for traffic matrix datasets, in the areas of security and routing. More recently, Nina is working on security problems for enterprise networks, with an emphasis on end-host based techniques.
  
  Prior to joining Intel, Nina was a researcher at Sprint Labs in Burlingame, CA. From 1994-1999, Nina worked at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA. She received her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. She is actively involved on various program and organizing committees. Nina was was the PC co-chair for the ACM SIGCOMM conference, held in Kyoto, Japan in 2007. She served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN) journal for 4 years, and is a member of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference steering committee. She has published over 50 technical papers, served on over 20 program and executive conference committees, and holds 10 patents.
  
  Nina is the mother of twins that are in elementary school. She is passionate about her hobbies which include music (she plays both piano and violin), languages, cooking and traveling. She is a strong believer in the importance of work/life balance and feels that it is especially important for women not to be afraid to set an example in the corporate workplace. Accordingly, she makes sure that there is time in her busy life for her family and interests.

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  The homogenous security approach is quick and easy, says Nina Taft, a researcher at Intel Research Berkeley, but because standard software doesn't take into account different people's patterns of computer use, it can produce false positives and entirely miss some attacks.
  
  "One reason security breaches are so rampant is that most of our machines look the same," says Taft.They have the same operating systems, same applications, same protocols, and same Internet traffic thresholds in the security settings, she says.

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  Nina Taft Intel Research
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  Nina Taft Intel Research

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  Nina Taft Intel Research Berkeley 2150 Shattuck Ave, Suite 1300 Berkeley, CA 94704-1347 USA T +1-510-495-3082 F +1-510-495-3049
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  Nina Taft is a senior research scientist at Intel Research Berkeley. Nina is interested in making the Internet a safer place, and thus works on security solutions both at the networking level and for end-hosts, such as laptops and desktops. She is interested in improving security through the smart use of measurement and inference technologies. In addition, she has worked in the areas of end-host profiling for reliability purposes, the application of diversity paradigms to security solutions, protection against data poisoning, overlay networks, and energy-aware proxies to reduce laptop energy consumption. Prior to joining Intel, Nina worked at Sprint Labs for 5 years. There, she worked on ISP traffic engineering problems such as traffic matrix estimation, routing, backbone traffic characterization and capacity planning. Prior to Sprint, she worked at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, and conducted research on congestion control and QoS routing. Nina received her PhD from UC Berkeley.
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  Nina Taft. Presented at RHDM (Reseaux Haut Debit et Multimedia) High Speed Multimedia Networks. French National Summer School. Corsica, France. May 2001. [PPT]

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  Nina Taft, Intel Research

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  Nina Taft, Intel Research, USA

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