BayLISA Monthly: 10/21/04: The Security Role for Linguistic Content Analysis: Jim Nisbet

Tue Oct 12 21:42:50 PDT 2004

       BayLISA Monthly Technical Talk & General Meeting

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Where: Apple Computer, Town Hall Auditorium
Addr:  Four Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA
http://www.baylisa.org/locations/current.html
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Date:  Thursday, 15 April 2004
Time:  7:30pm - 9:30pm PST

The Security Role for Linguistic Content Analysis: Monitoring content 
that leaves the organization
Jim Nisbet, Tablus

Computational linguistics is not a technology usually associated with 
networking devices such as firewalls and packet monitors, but this 
technology offers some powerful new capabilities. The premise is that if 
we want to look for high-value information leaving the company then we 
need to look to the same kind of linguistic categorization technologies 
software companies have historically used.

This talk principally explores content analysis techniques, ranging from 
regular expression pattern matching to latent semantic analysis which 
can be used to identify content characteristics reliably enough so that 
policies can be defined based on the content itself.

Jim Nisbet has many years of industry experience in networking, 
databases and linguistic analysis. As the founder and CEO of Tablus, he 
has worked as both a product architect and developer since the start of 
the company. Prior to Tablus, Mr. Nisbet was the Senior Vice-President 
of Products and Technology for Semio Corporation, which provided content 
categorization solutions. Mr. Nisbet was the founder and Chief 
Technology Officer of DataTools, a database software tool company 
founded in 1991 and acquired by BMC Software in 1997. Before founding 
DataTools, Mr. Nisbet worked for Stanford University at the Center for 
Information Technology for over 15 years.

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