Gregory Conti  

Academy Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
United States Military Academy
West Point, New York

email:   gregory-conti (replace_with_at_symbol) usma.edu

 
 
Research Interests
Network Security Data Visualization
Web Based Information Disclosure
Secure and Usable Interface Design
Information Warfare
RUMINT Security Visualization Tool


Civilian Education
2006 Ph.D. Computer Science   Georgia Institute of Technology
2000 M.S. Computer Science Johns Hopkins University
1997 Professionalization (Signals Collection) National Cryptologic School, NSA
1989 B.S. Computer Science United States Military Academy

Teaching Experience Professional
CS484 Computer Networks (Course Director) Adjunct Faculty Member, National Cryptologic School
CS489 Distributed Application Engineering (Course Developer and Course Director) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
CS382 Advanced Personal Computing (Course Director) National Eagle Scout Association (NESA)
CS482 Information Assurance (Adjunct) Phi Kappa Phi Award for Academic Achievement
SS490 Strategy and Policy of Cyberwar (Adjunct) Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE)
CS105 Introduction to Computing ACM Special Interest Group for Security Access and Control(SIGSAC)
ED101 Training Methods for Cryptographic Instructors (NSA Adjunct) USMA UPE Faculty Advisor
  USMA SIGSAC Faculty Advisor
-Won ACM 2001-2002 Chapter Excellence Award

Military Education Assignments
Command and General Staff College (CGSC) Instructor USMA
Combined Arms and Services Staff School (CAS3) Company Commander HOC, 713th MI Group
Advanced Cryptologic Course (CY500) Deputy Division Chief 713th MI Group
Joint Space Intelligence Operations Course (JSIOC) Battalion S3 743d MI BN
National Imagery Analysis Course (NIAC) Assistant S3 743d MI BN
Intelligence Collection Managers Course (ICMC) Assistant S2 2/4 Cavalry SQDN
Signals Intelligence / EW  Course (35G) Platoon Leader 124th MI BN
National Systems Development Program Collection Manager G2, 24th ID
Military Intelligence Officer Advanced Course Operations Officer G2, 24th ID
Military Intelligence Officer Basic Course
Jungle Warfare Course




Books
(New) G. Conti; Security Data Visualization, No Starch Press; September 2007.

Journals and Magazines
(New) G. Conti; "Could Googling Take Down a President?;" Communications of the ACM (50th Anniversary Issue), January 2008.

E. Sobiesk and G. Conti; "The Cost of Free Web Tools;" IEEE Security and Privacy, May/June 2007.

G. Conti (guest editor); "Hacking and Innovation (special issue);" Communications of the ACM (CACM), June 2006. Articles

G. Conti, K. Abdullah, J. Grizzard, J. Stasko, J. Copeland, M. Ahamad, H. Owen and C. Lee;"Countering Security Analyst and Network Administrator Overload Through Alert and Packet Visualization;" IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), March 2006.

G. Conti and M. Ahamad; "A Taxonomy and Framework for Countering Denial of Information Attacks;" IEEE Security and Privacy. November/December 2005.

G. Conti; "Why Computer Scientists Should Attend Hacker Conferences;" Communications of the ACM (CACM), March 2005.


Conference and Workshop Publications

K. Abdullah, G. Conti and E. Sobiesk; "Self-monitoring of Web-based Information Disclosure;" Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society; October 2007.

G. Conti and E. Sobiesk; "An Honest Man Has Nothing to Fear: User Perceptions on Web-based Information Disclosure;" Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS); July 2007.

G. Conti; "Satellite Imagery Analysis;" DEFCON 15; July 2007. (abstract)

G. Conti; "Googling Considered Harmful;" New Security Paradigms Workshop; October 2006. (See also the eWeek and USENIX LOGIN coverage)

G. Conti; "Googling: I'm Feeling (un)Lucky;" DEFCON 14; July 2006.
Talk PDF Slides(0.8M) Talk Audio(MP3 21.0M)   Talk Video(MP4 78.5M)

G. Conti; "Malware Cinema: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Packets;" Black Hat Europe; March 2006. Talk PPT Slides [16.1M] Talk PDF Slides [6.8M]

G. Conti; "Google: Don't Be Evil or Don't Be Good;" Interz0ne 5; March 2006.  Talk PPT Slides (2.6M)

G. Conti; "High Bandwidth Visual Analysis of Security Data Flows;" Interz0ne 5; March 2006.  Talk PPT Slides (15.7M)


G. Conti, J. Grizzard, M. Ahamad and H. Owen; "Visual Exploration of Malicious Network Objects Using Semantic Zoom, Interactive Encoding and Dynamic Queries;" IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization's Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSEC); October 2005.

K. Abdullah, C. Lee, G. Conti, J. Copeland and J. Stasko; " IDS RainStorm: Visualizing IDS Alarms;" IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization's Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSEC); October 2005.

G. Conti; "Beyond Ethereal: Crafting A Tivo for Security Datastreams;" Black Hat USA; July 2005. Talk PPT Slides (4.0M) Talk PDF Slides (6.7M)

G. Conti; "Countering Denial of Information Attacks;" DEFCON 13; July 2005.
Talk PPT Slides (3.4M) Talk PDF Slides (1.7M)
Talk Audio(MP3 21.0M)   Talk Video(MP4 78.5M)

G. Conti, M. Ahamad and J. Stasko; "Attacking Information Visualization System Usability: Overloading and Deceiving the Human;" Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS); July 2005.

S. Krasser, G. Conti, J. Grizzard, J. Gribschaw and H. Owen; "Real-Time and Forensic Network Data Analysis Using Animated and Coordinated Visualization;" IEEE Information Assurance Workshop (IAW); June 2005. Talk PPT Slides (0.7M)

K. Abdullah, C. Lee, G. Conti and J. Copeland; "Visualizing Network Data for Intrusion Detection;" IEEE Information Assurance Workshop (IAW); June 2005. Talk PDF Slides (0.7M)

G. Conti, M. Ahamad and R. Norback; "Filtering, Fusion and Dynamic Information Presentation: Towards a General Information Firewall;" IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE-ISI); May 2005.  Talk PPT Slides (2.0M)

G. Conti;"Countering Denial of Information Attacks with Information Visualization;" Interz0ne 4; March 2005.  Talk PPT Slides (4.3M)

G. Conti and K. Abdullah; " Passive Visual Fingerprinting of Network Attack Tools;" ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security's Workshop on Visualization and Data Mining for Computer Security (VizSEC); October 2004. Talk PPT Slides(1.8M)

J. Grizzard, S. Krasser, H. Owen, G. Conti and E. Dodson; " Towards an Approach for Automatically Repairing Compromised Network Systems;" IEEE Symposium on Network Computing and Application's Workshop on Trustworthy Network Computing (IEEE-NCA); August 2004.

G. Conti; "Network Attack Visualization;" DEFCON 12; August 2004.
Talk PPT Slides(5.6M)   Talk Audio(MP3 11.6M)   Talk Video(MP4 97.4M)
Classical InfoVis Survey PPT Slides (8.4M)  
Security InfoVis Survey PPT Slides
(16.8M)

G. Conti, D. Ragsdale, S. Lathrop and C. Gates; "Implementation and Lessons Learned from an Undergraduate Special Interest Group in Information Assurance;" Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education(CISSE); June 2004.

J. Grizzard, E. Dodson, G. Conti, J. Levine and Henry Owen; "Towards a Trusted Immutable Kernel Extension (TIKE) for Self-Healing Systems: a Virtual Machine Approach" IEEE Information Assurance Workshop (IAW); Poster Session; June 2004.

G. Conti; "Network Security Data Visualization;" Interz0ne3; April 2004. Talk PDF Slides (4.7M)

G. Conti; "Interface Design of Hacking Tools;" DEFCON 11; August 2003. Talk PPT Slides (8.7M)   Talk Audio(MP3 10.5M)

G. Conti, J. Hill, S. Lathrop, K. Alford and D. Ragsdale; "A Comprehensive Undergraduate Information Assurance Program;" Third World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE3); June 2003.

S. Lathrop, G. Conti and D. Ragsdale; "Information Warfare in the Trenches: Experiences from the Firing Line;" Third World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE3); June 2003.

J. Hill, J. Surdu, S. Lathrop, G. Conti and C. Carver; "MAADNET: Toward a Web-Distributed Tool for Teaching Networking and Information Assurance;" Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (ED-Media); June 2003.

R. Tate and K. Blankenheim (Advisor G. Conti); "Adapting Linux for Use on a Windows Based Campus Network: Modifying Open Source/Free Software to Meet Local Policy, Security, and Training Constraints;" National Conference on Undergraduate Research(NCUR); March 2003.

D. Ragsdale, J. Hill and G. Conti; "The Information Assurance Program at West Point;" Federal Information Systems Security Educators’ Association(FISSEA) Conference; March 2003. PPT Slides (3.4M)  PDF Slides (1.6M)

J. Hill, J. Surdu, S. Lathrop, G. Conti and C. Carver; "MAADNET NetBuilder: A Service/Demand Focused Network Simulator;" Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation (CNDS) conference; January 2003.

G. Conti, J. Hill and C. Carver; "Developing an Undergraduate Distributed Development Course;" Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE); November 2002. PPT Slides (474K) Selected as Frontiers in Education New Faculty Fellow 2002.

J. Surdu and G. Conti; "Join the Cyber Corps;" IEEE Information Assurance Workshop (IAW); Poster Session; June 2002.

K. Alford, G. Conti, D. Cushen, E. Ressler, W. Turmel and D. Welch; "A Two Edged Sword: Computing at West Point;" Making History: West Point at 200 Years Conference; March 2002.

G. Conti et al. " A Framework for Integrating Ethical and Values-Based Instruction into the ACM Computing Curricula 2001;" Protecting Information in the Computer and Beyond Workshop; Purdue University, October 2001.

D. Welch, J. Marin and G. Conti; "A Framework for Information Warfare Simulation;" IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Information Assurance Workshop; May 2001.
Other Books and Book Chapters
Betros, Lance; (G. Conti et al contributors); “History of Computing at West Point;” West Point: Two Centuries And Beyond; The McWhiney Foundation Press, 2004.

G. Conti, J. M. D. Hill, S. Lathrop, K. Alford, and D. J. Ragsdale, "Towards A Comprehensive Undergraduate Information Assurance Program," Security Education and Critical Infrastructure, C. Irvine and H. Armstrong, Editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 2003, pp. 243-260, 2003

S. D. Lathrop, G. J. Conti, and D. J. Ragsdale, "Information Warfare In The Trenches: Experiences from the Firing Range ," Security Education and Critical Infrastructure, C. Irvine and H. Armstrong, Editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 2003, pp. 19-40, 2003

Smith, A. N., Custer, J. M., Berrie, J. W., G. J. Conti, and T. Thompson, Warfighter's Guide to Intelligence Communications Architectures, Operational Support Office, June 1996.

Panels
J. Bar-Ilan, T. Cross, M. Kratz and W. Seltzer (G. Conti Moderator);Web Search Privacy Issues, World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007); May 2007.

G. Conti; Googling Considered Harmful (as part of the 2006 Highlights of the New Security Paradigms Workshop Panel), Annual Computer Security Applications Conference(ACSAC); December 2006.

S. Chan, G. Conti and M. Zurko (K. Beznosov moderator); Usability of Security Administration vs. Usability of End-user Security Panel, Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), Carnegie Mellon University; June 2005.

E. Balas, J. Stasko, K. Whitley and B. Yurcik (G. Conti moderator); Visualizing Security Data; IEEE Information Assurance Workshop, United States Military Academy, June 2005.

Military Journals

K. Abdullah, C. Lee, G. Conti and J. Copeland. "Processing Data to Construct Practical Visualizations for Network Security," Information Assurance Newsletter, Information Assurance Technology Analysis Center, United States Department of Defense, Summer 2006.

G. Conti, "Thinking Out of the Box," Military Review, April 1998.

G. Conti, "You Can't Circle X a Deadlined Computer," Military Intelligence, December 1994.

G. Conti, "Automation: An Intelligence Multiplier," Military Intelligence, June 1994.

Dissertation
G. Conti, "Countering Network Level Denial of Information Attacks Using Information Visualization," Ph.D. Dissertation,
Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2006. (Advisor: Mustaque Ahamad)
 
Sundry
G. Conti, Year You First Became Root?, Slashdot Poll, October 2004.

B. Halford's Article on USMA's SIGSAC Chapter, "Cyber Soldiers on the March," ASEE Prism, March 2003, p.48