Jonathan Squire: $30, 30 Minutes, 30 Networks

Have you ever walked into your local Global Mega Super Tech Store and wondered how cheaply you could build a device that could play your digital music, display pictures, and listen to your neighbor's wireless network? Project Cowbird is part of an on-going research project to chart the various predators and prey within the information security landscape into a pseudo-ecology. Project Cowbird demonstrates the reuse of a $30 wireless media adapter as a kismet server. The small form factor of the device, in addition to its abundant hardware features (TV out, PCMCIA slot, prism2 card, 10/100 Ethernet), make the use of this device as a development platform for security tools very intriguing. A brief glimpse into the current and future research of the paper "The Ecology of Information Security" will also be covered. Jonathan Squire is a founding member of the Dow Jones Information Security Group, and is credited with accomplishments that include developing an Information Security model for the enterprise, architecting the security infrastructure for Factiva.com, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, and architecting a secure, centralized credit card processing solution. Mr. Squire is an active member of the Enterprise Architecture Group within Dow Jones, the group that provides direction of technology initiatives within the enterprise. He is also responsible for providing direction in governance and industry best practices. In his spare time, Jonathan is known to enjoy disassembling any piece of technology that cost more the $20 just to find out what else it can do. This propensity for abusing technology is easily witnessed by viewing the buckets of broken parts strewn throughout his basement as well as the creations that rise from the rubble."