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Kevin Ziese

Kevin Ziese, Technical Leader

Kevin Ziese

Background and Biography:

Kevin Ziese has over 20 years of experience in computer security with a wide variety of assignments in research, and development. Kevin was a co-founder of the WheelGroup Corporation, which was acquired by Cisco in 1997. Prior to that, Kevin was the Chief of the Advanced Countermeasures Cell at the U.S. Air Force Information Warfare Center. Kevin holds two master's degrees, and is a distinguished graduate of the US Air Force Institute of Technology. His thesis research focused on "How Effective Are Anti-Viral Toolkits In Detecting Computer Virus Attacks?" In addition to his research background, Kevin also has real-world experience as both a consultant, and inspector, with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) on Iraq; focused on computer forensics, and detecting and deploying steganographic techniques.

Research Interests:

Cryptanalysis, steganography, steganalysis, malicious software analysis, military computing, man critical systems, computer forensics, and statistics and probability applications in security.

CIAG Research Projects:

The "safe" scanner project safely and accurately maps network topology without the use of invasive scanning techniques. It will be especially useful in critical computing environments that require up-to-date network mappings, but cannot tolerate invasive scanning techniques. The primary research goal is to establish passive traffic analysis as a useful scanning technique for critical computing environments.

Patents Awarded in Software Security:

  • US Patent # 6,567,917 "Method and System For Providing Tamper-Resistant Software"
  • US Patent # 6,483,315 "Method and System For Dynamically Distributed Updates In A Network"
  • US Patent # 6,324,656 "System and Method for Rules-Driven Multi-Phase Network Vulnerability Assessment"
  • US Patent # 6,301,668 "Method and System For Adaptive Network Security using Network Vulnerability Assessment"

Contact: ziese@cisco.com