Henry Owen - Professor

Henry received his BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1980, 1983, and 1989 respectively. He joined the research faculty of the Georgia Tech Research Institute in 1980.  After completing his Ph.D. in 1989, he joined the academic faculty. In 1990, he took a one-year leave of absence to conduct on site research for Alcatel in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2000, he was involved in an Internet Security start up on a half-time basis. In 2001, Henry was a part of the team that set up the Georgia Tech Honeynet. The Georgia Tech Honeynet is a network that is deployed specifically to observe malicious activity on the Internet. Georgia Tech is a part of the Honeynet Research Alliance which is a group of organizations that are researching, developing, and deploying Honeynets. The Georgia Tech Honeynet is also used as a training tool, both in the class room and through graduate and undergraduate volunteers that participate in the Georgia Tech Honeynet activities. Henry is presently involved in research to examine network security vulnerabilities via large scale simulation, where with other faculty in the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, they are designing and implementing a large-scale network security simulation framework.  He is also involved in network security visualization research where visualization techniques are being applied to network security data sets. Another area of research that he is involved in is intrusion recovery systems. The concept of an intrusion recovery system follows naturally from intrusion detection systems and intrusion prevention systems. Henry is a member of the Computer Engineering and the Telecommunications  technical interest groups at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is affiliated with the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, the Communications Systems Center, and the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems.