BU/ISSA New England Chapter Meeting – May 18, 2011

April 19th, 2011

Dear BU Students, Faculty and Members of the Information Systems Security Association - You are invited to the BU/ISSA New England Chapter Meeting on May 18. Please R.S.V.P. at the ISSA-NE website:  issa-ne.org There is a fee of $40 for non-ISSA members: This will be waived for BU Students, Faculty and anyone... More

Cyber Quest Competition

April 19th, 2011

Cyber Quest Competition is a great opportunity to compete for both recognition and scholarships to intense summer workshops.  The competition is part of the US Cyber Challenge, a program funded by DHS in partnership with the Center for Internet Security, SANS, DoD, Microsoft, Lockheed and several other... More

Information Systems Security Analyst, AVP

April 15th, 2011

Corporate Information Security - Job Description Information Systems Security Analyst, AVP Job Code: IT 1221 Background The Corporate Information Security team is managed by State Street’s Chief Information Security Officer and consists of approximately 20 people located in North Quincy, Massachusetts.  The group’s charter revolves around 7 programmatic Information Security cornerstones, encompassing: Policies Measurement of... More

PCPs and the Hardness of Generating Private Synthetic Data

February 17th, 2011

Friday, February 18, 2011, 3:00 pm in MCS 135 Speaker: Jon Ullman, Harvard University Abstract: We study the computational complexity of differentially private data release for simple, natural queries.  Without computational constraints, the work of Blum, Ligett, and Roth (STOC '08) showed that it is possible to produce differentially private "synthetic databases" that approximately preserve rich... More