[Colloq] Monday, Dec. 6, Kawika Daguio - Director of Information Assurance Program candidate

[Rachel Kalweit]

College of Computer and Information Science and the College of Criminal 
Justice Colloquium

presents
Kawika Daguio
Lono Systems

who will speak on:
How has email gotten so complex?
Email in the age of Enron

Monday, December 6, 2004
3:00pm
366 West Village H
Northeastern University

ABSTRACT
Once upon a time email was a simple application.  Once, you simply typed 
an email and it was sent to a recipient's mailbox.  Email 
infrastructures are universally implemented and previously were well 
understood.  Times have changed, as have the technical requirements, due 
to government policy imposed performance requirements that were designed 
to facilitate investigations.  New messaging regulations are driving 
changes in retention and recovery requirements.  What we have observed 
is that corporate policies and processes, as well as technical 
infrastructures, are not yet in synch with these new and evolving demands.

Many companies have faced, and many more are facing, significant fines 
for being unable to properly satisfy discovery requests from law 
enforcement and regulators.  For companies that must comply with 
subpoenas, and for regulated firms that must prove that they can comply, 
email is now complex, expensive, and difficult to manage, and its 
architecture requires an understanding of regulator-driven requirements 
and forensics.  This kind of challenge requires multidiscipline trained 
people who can handle criminal justice, regulatory and technical issues. 
  New requirements have introduced a new way to think of information 
assurance in messaging (email, IM, etc.) architectures, and even have 
created new scientific open problems in indexing, security, and software 
design.

We discuss the new requirement of messaging protocols: legal discovery. 
  We first motivate the discussion through a recent perspective of 
litigation and regulation and then discuss the policy/law, process, and 
technological changes that are being proposed to close the gap between 
the new requirements and firms’ current capabilities.  We further give 
examples of information assurance requirements, design constraints, and 
an overview of the state of the art.  Throughout the presentation, we 
relate these new messaging requirements to recent trends in other areas 
of information assurance.

New demands are imposing a new way of thinking of corporate processes 
and system design, and at the same time create new scientific challenges 
and a rethinking of how corporations develop and manage information assets.