Distributed Honeypots Project Staff
George Bakos | Marion Bates | Mark Ryan | Irv Thomae

George Bakos, Senior Security Expert Prior to his appointment at Dartmouth, George Bakos was a Security Engineer for Electronic Warfare Associates, conducting audits, penetration tests, policy review and security engineering/implementation. He developed and taught the US Army National Guard's CERT technical curriculum and ran the NGB's Information Operations Training & Development Center research lab for two years, fielding and supporting dozens of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) nationwide. George's current research efforts include Active Worm Detection, through ICMP Metering and further development of the SHADOW Intrusion Analysis System. In his spare time, George teaches Intrusion Detection and Security Essentials for the SANS Institute. Marion Bates, Research Engineer Marion Bates received her B.A. in Cognitive Science from Dartmouth College in 2000. She has been a Macintosh Repair Technician since 1992, and completed the A+ Service Technician Certification Examination with Mac OS Specialty in 1998. While at Dartmouth College, she maintained a number of lab, faculty, and staff computers for four campus departments, and also worked as a freelance repair specialist for on- and off-campus Mac users. In 1999 she served as Campus Representative for Apple Computer, Inc., where she offered pre-sales consulting and technical assistance for Macintosh users. At the IRIA, Marion's research areas include Perl/PHP programming, database administration, and Linux and Macintosh security. Mark Ryan, Research Associate Mark Ryan, Research Associate. Since arriving at ISTS in June of 2002, Mark Ryan has added graphical functionality to the IDABench Tools for Intrusion Analysis, investigated forensic methods of comparing Linux system images from before and after attacks take place, assisted in the development of a instant-messaging client simulating communication between government officials in the event of a terrorist attack for the TOPOFF Cyber Exercise held in May 2003, and created an XML-based representation of BGP traffic levels, which is now used to generate the Global Instability Index, a measure of Internet health. In three years with Reuters America, he worked on a wide variety of online financial data products, developing both web-based front ends and backend data APIs. Mark received his B.S. degree in Computer Science and Classical Humanities from Rutgers University. Irv Thomae, Ph.D., Senior Research Engineer Irv Thomae's current research interests include honeypot applications in network intrusion-detection; analyzing and thwarting the role of "spambot" infections in propagating spam; and Java user-interface and server programming. He joined ISTS in the summer of 2001, after seventeen years as an independent software developer and consultant. Prior to that, he had spent ten years on the faculty and staff of Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. As a consultant and while at Thayer School, he participated in product design and review for systems ranging from PC software and microcontroller applications to electric utility equipment. Irv holds an SB in Physics and a PhD in Communications Biophysics, both from MIT, and two US patents. A resident of Vermont since 1975, he is also active at local and state levels in school funding and tax equity issues. In his spare time, he enjoys distilling railroad and cultural history into scale model recreations of life in pre-1940 Vermont. Top