Bill Cheswick's Talks

These are the slides from various public talks, with lots of duplicates. Various formats are available, which I should clean up.

• Rethinking Passwords

  Updated for the class in Melbourne, via Zoom (Keynote).

• Rethinking Passwords

  Mentor Project version, via Zoom.

• Security: I think we are going to win

  (Keynote), ISSA San Antonio, 12 Nov 2019. Better layout.

• A few more Peter faces.

  A brief set of 3D Peter faces (PDF).

• Security: I think we are going to win

  (PDF), latest version updated with new Day 0 data and cleaned up. Perhaps some parts are a little technical for this audience, but I can skip those slide. 113 slides, about an hour long.

• Cyberspace Camp Draft

  (PDF).

• NLUUG 2018 keynote, Utrecht

  in Keynote.

• Mentor's rocket videos

  rockets (keynote) (200MB).

• Fun With Research

  Governor's School talk in front of a great bunch at Drew on 11 July 2017.

• About Data

  . The first draft of a talk I am giving at Blackhat Sessions XV, in Ede, NL, at the end of June. This was presented to a nice crowd at Bell Labs on 8 June 2017. Keynote version and PDF.

• Security: I Think We Can Win

  . HTCIA Vegas version, Sep. 2016 (Keynote) and (PDF)

• What My Father Taught Me About Investing.

  , From a talk given at Bell Labs, MH, April 2016 (pdf), an approach using long-term investing in quality growth stocks that have steady, long-term earnings growth. "Most stocks are not worth owning." The slides are a bit old, but the lessons have not only remained the same, but continue to prove out, even in these trying times.

• Security: I Think We Can Win

  . ACGNJ version, Oct. 2014. (PDF)

• Fun With Research

  . This year's talk for the NJ Governor's School.

• Rethinking Password

  . NLUUG version 2014. (PDF)

• Security: I Think We Can Win

  . NLUUG version 2014. (PDF)

• Ches's Adventures in Security

  . Biographical talk centering on interesting security events. Given at the Vintage Computer Festival East 9.1, 6 April 2014. Updated and expanded for talk at Penn, September 2015.

• Security: I Think We Can Win

  . Cyber Crime 2014 version 2014. (PDF)

• Security: I Think We Can Win

  . PDF of draft version of keynote, 20 Nov. 2013, at OWASP APPsec 2013 in New York.

• Rethinking Passwords

  . PDF of latest version, given at Penn, 17 April 2013.

• Lessons From Stuxnet

  . PDF of latest version, given at Penn, 10 April 2013.

• Rethinking Passwords

  . PDF of latest version, given at the ISSA conference, summer 2012.

• Back to Berferd

  , a retrospective on the changes in network security over the past 25 years.

• Pecha Kucha Night at RSA, 2011

  . I gave two talks in 6:20, with 20 slides, including intermission. It was fun, though I need to punch up the presentation of the first talk. On Youtube.

• Rethinking Passwords

  . at 2011 RSA. Video is Here.

• Rethinking Passwords

  . PDF of latest version, given at Lehigh, 2 December 2010.

• Rethinking Passwords

  . PDF of latest version, given as an invited talk at LISA 2010 in San Jose, 11 November 2010.

• Rethinking Passwords

  . PDF of latest version, with some minor changes since NYIT and before. Given 8 Oct 2010 in Minneapolis for OWASP.

• Rethinking Passwords

  . Updated version for law enforcement and security industry folks in the heartland, 21 April 2010. Now, with the latest AT&T slide formats, translated from Powerpoint to Keynote. (PDF).

• RSA Bootcamp: Perimeter Defenses and Firewalls

  . A 45 minute introduction for RSA 2010 (pdf).

• Rethinking Passwords

  . This is the long presentation (PDF) given at the Solaris Security Summit colocated with LISA 2009 in Baltimore.

• Visual Tools for Security: Is there a There There?

  (Keynote) (pdf) Slides for the Vizsec 2009 in Atlantic City. Some ideas and lessons about getting people to use visualization ideas in actual network security applications.
• Rethinking Passwords (pdf), Governor's School version, with the insults.
• Rethinking Passwords (rethink.key.tar.gz, 58MB) (pdf) keynote at AUSCERT 2008. You don't want the pdf: it has movies in it. A very similar talk at GOVCERT.NL is on video here.

• 40 years of Internet Security: Are We There Yet?

  NIST seminar, Now on google videos.
• Jerico Forum, Sep 2007, New York, 40 Years of Internet Security and Perimeters. As mentioned in the New York Times.
• Yahoo, Sunnyvale, 2 March 2007, 40 Years of Internet Security. Internet security and Vista predictions.

• Unix on my Mind,

  Amsterdam, 15 Sep 2006, in PDF from a LaTeX file.

• Pondering Perimeters

  , NLUUG, September 2006.
• Delft, 18 May 2006, Unix on my Mind, now in PDF from a LaTeX file.
• Toronto, 9 Feb 2006, Pondering Network Perimeters, substantially rearranged.
• At SIAC/poly.edu: Dad and Patrol.
• Pondering Network Perimeters, keynote for SecureComm in Athens, Greece, Sep. 2005.

• My Dad's Computer, Microsoft, and the Future of Internet Security

  , SOUPS conference, 8 July 2005, Pittsburgh.

• IPv6: Thanks for stopping by

  . Technosecurity conference, Myrtle Beach, 13 June 2005.

• Patroling Perimeters and Intranets

  . DOE Cybersecurity Conference, Westminster, CO.
• Patroling Perimeters and Intranets. GFIRST conference, Orlando, 7 April 2005.

• Mapping the Internet and Intranets

  . NJIT, 10 March 2005.
• Mapping the Internet and Intranets. NITES conference, Dublin, 2 March 2005.
• My Dad's Computer, Microsoft, and the future of Internet Security. Given at the NITES conference, Dublin, 1 March 2005.
• My Dad's Computer, Microsoft, and the future of Internet Security. Given at the NSF Washington Area Trustworthy Systems Hour on 9 Feb 2005.
• Zombies, Adware, and Spam. Talk given with Lorette at the Bernardsville Public Library on the snowy night of January 19, 2005.
• Kuwait ACM programming contest keynote Internet mapping and some software lessons.
• NSF/NCAR security summit keynote slides.
• My Dad's Computer, Microsoft, and the future of Internet Security. An emergency holographic surprise replacement talk at Usenix Security in San Diego.
• Clear and Present Danger. A combination of mapping and Dad's computer talks for the AFCEA Technet in St. Louis.

• Forty Years of Internet Arms Races

  . Given at AUSCERT conference on the gold coast, 25 May 2005.
• Pondering and Patrolling Perimeters, shorter version for the German folks who have seen the Internet mapping talk. For the tour of Germany the week of 19 April 2004.
• Pondering and Patrolling Perimeters, Lumeta free breakfast talk given in Dallas, Manhattan Beach, and Mountain View, late March 2004.
• Internet Security Successes and Lessons, TTI/Vanguard talk in Austin, Feb. 2004.
• Internet Security: an Optimist Gropes for Hope, Usenix Security invited talk, August 2003.
• Using honeyd to simulate actual networks.

• Internet Attacks - the Gory Details

  , given at Linux Forum 2003 in Copenhagen on 28 Feb.
• Mapping the Internet and Intranets, ../ppt/ITdefense2003.ppt (~8MB), given 29 January 2003.

• Security Ideas from all over

  , given in Sardinia on 6 Oct 2002. Here are rejected slides, I have way too many for the allotted time.
• Security Ideas from all over, Altantic City HTCIA conference on 3 Oct 2002. File is gzipped.
• Mapping the Internet and Intranets, given 18 June 2002 at CSI NETsec 2002.
• Security Ideas From All Over, spring 2002 version.

• Technology and Security

  , given 31 Jan. 2002 at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). A look at an important subject: coming security threats. I wish I had done a better job.
• Denial-of-service talk given at the Austin Vanguard conference.

Wow, that's a lot of speaking. And I like other ephemeral things, like software and sand castles.

Here are some slides from older talks.