CoolTech Club with Dmitri Varsanofiev : Don’t Try This At Home: A Layman’s Guide To Security Vulnerabilities of the Original 802.11 Standard

WHEN

February 24,2004

WHAT

History of the security of the wireless LAN (WiFi, 802.11) contains more suspense than an average Hitchcock thriller: exposed weaknesses, bold claims, daring attacks, and a happy 802.11i ending. Presentation will concentrate on the causes behind the security flaws of the basic 802.11 standard, with an emphasis on "design of security features is better left to real professionals". Practical issues, like "how safe is it to have an 802.11 access point at my home / office?" will also be addressed. No background in cryptography is required.
 

WHO

Dr. Dmitri Varsanofiev

PRESENTATION

What They Say About Us

"The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries."

Ron Conway, Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds, early stage investor in Google and PayPal

"Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience."

Esther Dyson, Founder, EDventure Holdings

"This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the Eastern European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded key note speakers' line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur,"

Richard Guha, President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

"As Stanford MBA students, we were exposed to a lot of VC firms both from the Valley and abroad. It is at Stanford that we met Anna Dvornikova, an absolutely amazing business leader and (by our big luck) our friend, who was the center of the Russian Silicon Valley professional community, and was doing a huge work to connect Russia and the Valley. Anna helped us a lot with kick-starting Wikimart, put us to our first-ever conference, introduced us to most of Russian VCs. And all that happened in a very short time span! It was the beginning of a six-month journey that despite the particularly tough times resulted in an extraordinarily group of investors backing our start-up."

Maxim Faldin and Kamil Kurmakayev,
co-CEOs, Wikimart