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Current work

I am in the CyberSecurity Directorate working as a Senior Security Engineer. I currently lead the Security Operations and Incident Response team which focuses on the day to day security of NCSA. I also collaborate with other security engineers working on security for projects such as the Teragrid.

NCSA Security web page.

I also have been involved with a couple of the NCASSR security research projects here at NCSA. Specifically I have worked alot with the SIFT group on data mining and visualization for intrusion detection and have published and presented a few papers with that group (see below).

Past lives at NCSA

I started at NCSA managing the AFS environment, which I did for 6 years. During that time we migrated from the AFS authentication method (kaserver) to Kerberos 5. I then started managing our Kerberos 5 realm which has been in production since the beginning of 1998. We are using the AFS to Kerberos Migration Kit developed in large part by Ken Hornstein of the Naval Research Lab with help from Von Welch from here at NCSA. For more information on our Kerberos environment you can check out the NCSA Kerberos pages.

I also kept some of the packages we use at NCSA up to date. I maintained the SSH package we use at NCSA. For more information on our SSH environment you can check out the NCSA SSH page.

Here are a few scripts that I have written to help out with system and security administration tasks while working at NCSA.

Before NCSA

Before I came to NCSA I worked for Frasca International for five years. There I did software development for flight simulation.

Publications

A AAAA model to support science gateways with community accounts
Von Welch, Jim Barlow, James Basney, Doru Marcusiu, and Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 2006

UCLog: A Unified, Correlated Logging Architecture for Intrusion Detection
Zhenmin Li, Jed Taylor, Elizabeth Partridge, Yuanyuan Zhou, William Yurcik, Cristina Abad, James J. Barlow, and Jeff Rosendale
12th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems - Modeling and Analysis (ICTSM) , 2004.

Maintaining Perspective on Who Is The Enemy in the Security Systems Administration of Computer Networks
William Yurcik, James Barlow, Jeff Rosendale
Paper accepted for the CHI2003 workshop on System Administrators are Users, Too: Designing Workspaces for Managing Internet-Scale System. Presented the paper at the workshop.

Two Visual Computer Network Security Monitoring Tools Incorporating Operator Interface Requirements
William Yurcik, James Barlow, Kiran Lakkaraju and Mike Haberman
Paper accepted for the CHI2003 workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Security Systems. Presented the paper at the workshop.

Scalable Data Management Alternatives to Support Data Mining Heterogeneous Logs for Computer Network Security
William Yurcik, James Barlow, Yuanyuan Zhou, Hrishikesh Raje, Yifan Li, Xiaoxin Yin, Mike Haberman, Dora Cai, and Duane Searsmith
2003 SIAM Workshop on Data Mining for Counter Terrorism and Security.

A Prototype Tool for Visual Data Mining of Network Traffic for Intrusion Detection
William Yurcik, Kiran Lakkaraju, James Barlow, and Jeff Rosendale
3rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Workshop on Data Mining for Computer Security (DMSEC), 2003

Contact Information 

James J. Barlow <jbarlow(at)ncsa.uiuc.edu>
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
1205 West Clark Street, Urbana, IL  61801
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~jbarlow

Frequented links:

Comic relief from work:

My resume.
My PGP public key.

My other homepage.

Please email jbarlow(at)ncsa.uiuc.edu with comments and corrections.