14 December 2006 - SilkRoad USA's New Web Site Goes Live!
16 December 2005 - Tim Bass starts his new Wiki Blog discussing the governments flawed IPv6 mandate.
13 September 2005 - Tim Bass, President of SilkRoad, participates in Managing NetCentric Systems Panel, at AFEI's International Conference on Enterprise Transformation, Washington, DC.
23 August 2005 - Tim Bass, President of SilkRoad, leads a net-centric workshop, Net-Centric Strategy, Architecture and SOA, at IDGA's Net-Centric University (NCU) event at the Omni Shoreham, Washington, DC.
16 June 2005 - Tim Bass present paper, The New Global Information Economy - Implications and Recommendations for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), at the 10th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium: The Future of C2. Press Release.
3-5 May 2005 -
Tim Bass, President of SilkRoad, to serve as the Chairman of the Net-Centric Architecture Conference produced by the Global Defense Institute, Crystal City, VA.
4 May 2005 -
SilkRoad, Inc. announces the completion of a merger with The Silk Road Group, Ltd.
23 March 2005 -
SilkRoad awarded a 5 year GSA IT FSS contract extension. The term of the GSA contract period is 3/14/2005 - 3/13/2010.
22 March 2005 -
Tim Bass briefs a new SilkRoad concept, The Yin and Yang of IT Portfolio Management: Net-Centricity versus Capital Planning and Investment Control, as a member of the NDIA Net-Centric Operations, Interoperability, and Systems Integration Conference Panel, Norfolk, VA.
2 March 2005 -
SilkRoad contributes a brief survey on StaffBots: Chat Bots and Forums Bots, DARPA Workship of Virtual Intelligent Agencts, 2 March 2005.
24 February 2005 -
SilkRoad installs the forum bot Gollum in the UNIX forums.
12 January 2005 -
SilkRoad upgrades UNIX.COM to vBulletin 3.0.
9 December 2004 -
Bass, T.,
Net-Centric Enterprise Services: Content Discovery, Messaging and CDN Storage Services, High Level Archi
tecture and Functional Service Descriptions, Third Draft V0.31.
Third Draft Slides in PDF format
2 November 2004 -
SilkRoad to present Service-Oriented Horizontal Fusion in Distributed Coordination-Based Systems at
IEEE MILCOM 2004, Monterey, CA.
MILCOM 2004 Presentation Slides and Notes
15 October 2004 -
Tim Bass invited by Martin Kenney, Solicitor to give an extemporaneous talk at the Due Diligence & Asset Recovery Symposium, Coral Gables, Florida.
21 September 2004 -
E-Government 2004 Conference on Enterprise Architecture, Presentation by Tim Bass: Emerging Concepts in Net-Centric Architectures, Ronald Regan Building and International Trade Center, Washington D.C.
Also see: Emerging Concepts in Net-Centric Architectures - Slides and Notes.
24 July 2004 -
Masters degree students at the University of Oslo and Oslo University College credit Tim Bass and Lt. Col. (R) Glenn Watt as the first to formalize the spam filtering model; a model which was later to be adapted by all spam filtering software. Visit their Wiki-Wiki portal for the Network and System Administration (NaSA) here..
"Researcher Tim Bass [SilkRoad] and Lt. Col. Glenn Watt, at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, USA, made an early attempt [1997] to block out huge amounts of spam that were relayed through their SMTP servers. They assumed that most of the emails were coming from a small group of individuals, since the theme was somewhat similar. They contained pornographic material and bigoted hate-mail. However, since most of the mail headers were forged, it was nearly impossible to track them down. They formed the Tiger Team, a group of scientists and military engineers, dedicated to fighting the spammers. The team developed a model that formed the basis of a working prototype. It consisted of a queue piped through a processing filter, where the classification was done. Their implementation is far too simple to be used for anything serious nowadays. Nevertheless, they were the first to formalize this model - a model which was later to be adapted by all spamfiltering software."
19 July 2004 -
The Federal CIO Council Architecture and Infrastructure Committee, Components Subcommittee releases new white paper on service component-based architectures.
14 March 2004 -
SilkRoad releases new flash introduction for Silk Road web site.
15 January 2004 - CIO Magazine,
What You Need to Know About Service-Oriented Architecture, by Todd Datz.
30 December 2003,
SilkRoad awarded task to provide Senior Subject Matter Expertise to
the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in the domain of Content Staging and Information Dissemination Management Architecture.
24 December 2003 -
SilkRoad releases their first multimedia
flash-intro
based on Tim Bass' 1997 IEEE Network cover story on
Email Bombs and Countermeasures.
8 December 2003 -
SilkRoad donates
state-of-the-art flash animation for UNIX.COM - a
commercial free knowledge base for the UNIX community.
24 November 2003 - SilkRoad awarded Network-Centric Systems Architecture: Strategy and Definition follow-on task to provide Senior Subject Matter Expertise to USAF, Office of the CIO.
22 October 2003,
Mr. Todd Datz, CIO Magazine interviews Tim Bass for a December article on Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA).
22 September 2003,
SilkRoad awarded Network-Centric Systems Architecture: Strategy and Definition task to provide Senior Subject Matter Expertise to DoD, Office of the CIO, ASD/NII.
12 August 2003, US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) finalizes registration of the SilkRoad trademark, registration number 2749093.
28 May 2003, Tim Bass presents to the Global Combat Support System (GCSS) Architectural Working Group (AWG), "Applying the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) to GCSS."
10 January 2003,
The Purdue University Human Subject Protection Program selects the risk analysis methodology developed by Tim Bass and Roger Robichaux as the basis for their risk management program.
21 November 2002,
SilkRoad awarded Network-Centric Systems Architecture: Strategy and Definition task to provide Senior Subject Matter Expertise to USAF, Office of the CIO.
17 July 2002,
SilkRoad awarded task to provide Senior Subject Matter Expertise to
the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in the domain of Information Dissemination Management (IDM) Architecture Analysis
and Definition.
10 July 2002, Tim Bass, President of SilkRoad, presents a
paper in a special session on Information Fusion for Critical Infrastructure Protection at
the International Conference on Information Fusion: FUSION 2002,
Annapolis,MD.
Paper:
The Federation of Critical Infrastructure Information via Publish-Subscribe Enabled Multisensor Data Fusion
29 October 2001,
SilkRoad awarded task to provide Senior Subject Matter Expertise to USAF Office of the CIO in the domain of web services and security.
28 October 2001, IEEE MILCOM 2001,
Defense-In-Depth Revisited: Qualitative Risk Analysis Methodology for Complex Network-Centric Operations,
Presentation by Tim Bass & Roger Robichaux.
22 Sept 2001: The Webmaster Show, Tim Bass talks with John Pack about Sept 11 -- In the Aftermath of Terror: Technology's Role Reassessed.
02 July 2001:Computerworld,
Study: Firewall Appliances Back in Vogue With Companies
, by Dan Verton
19 May 2001: The Webmaster Show,
Tim Bass talks with John Pack, about the California Energy Crisis: From a Tech Perspective.
1 April 2001: Tim Bass wins first place for the HNS on-line article,
Traditional Intrusion Detection Model Outdated and Distracting.
PDF Version of Traditional Intrusion Detection Model Outdated and Distracting
6 March 2001: CNN and IDG,
Power grids could be vulnerable to hackers, by Dan Verton
02 March 2001: Computerworld,
Experts debate U.S. power grid's vulnerabilities to hackers,
by Dan Verton.
20 February 2001:
SilkRoad - PRC - Wang(Getronics) Team wins DISA IASSURE
engineering support task for future JTF-CND Information Superiority
Situational Awareness (ISSA) analysis and integration.
16 August 2000: Federal Computer Week,
The Secret to Success:
New Air Force CIO Finds Order through Organization, Discipline,
George I. Seffers.
July 2000:
Bass, T., Lead Technical Architect, USAF IT Summit on Portals (MY.AF.MIL) & Middleware,
Air Force Communications and Information Center (AFCIC), Rosslyn, VA.
Related Article in Federal Computer Week
5 Apr 2000:
A Glimpse into the Future of Intrusion Detection,
George Mason University (GMU) ISE Alumni Club Keynote, Fairfax, VA.
14 March 2000:
SilkRoad awarded 5 year GSA IT FSS contract
GS-35F-0290K
1 Jan 2000:
Trusted Internet security advisor to US Department
of Energy CIO during Y2K clock roll-over. Lucky
for everyone, there were no significant security events!
9 Dec 1999:
CC2 and Cyberspace Situational Awareness,
CSSPAB/NIST Briefing, Gaithersburg, MD.
2 Dec 1999:
AF Enterprise Security Management: ESM & ITA,
USAF Network Operations and Security Center (NOSC) Conference,
Hampton, VA.
20 September 1999: Federal Computer Week,
Study: IT Increases Terrorist Threat,
Daniel Verton.
26 July 1999: Dan Verton,
Dedication is the Best Defense -
Tim Bass uses network
expertise to help Langley Air Force
Base Fight Hackers,
Federal Computer Week.
FCW Profile (4.54MB PDF File)
July 1999:
Popular Science -
WAR.COM. Frank Vizard's feature story about the Langley Cyber Attack.
19 July 1999: Federal Computer Week,
Congress Considers Security Policy Changes,
Daniel Verton.
29 June 1999: CNN Interactive,
Cyberattacks Spur Talk of Third DOD Network,
Bob Brewin and Daniel Verton (IDG)
10 June 1999:
Dr. Dobb's Technetcast
Interview with Tim Bass, USENIX Technical Conference, Monterey, CA,
10 June 1999:
USENIX Annual Technical Conference - Invited Talk,
E-Mail Bombs, Countermeasures and The Langley Cyber Attack ,
(Abstract)
3 May 1999: Federal Computer Week,
New Cyberterror Threatens AF
, by
Daniel Verton.
31 Mar 1999:
AFCEA NOVA Forecast to Industry ,
Information Assurance - Creating Cyberspace Situational Awareness,
Panel Moderator
March 1999: IEEE Network Paper on Email Bombs and Countermeasures Nominated for the:
1998 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize.
10 Mar 1999: National
Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP),
Workshop on Databases of Threats and
Countermeasures:
E-Mail Bombs & Countermeasures
23 February 1999,
Detection of Malicious Code, Intrusions, and Anomalous Activities
Workshop, Reporting and Analysis Track (PDF Report),
Sponsored by NSA, DOE and OSTP.
5 Jan 1999: PC Magazine -
The Looming E-Mail Disaster,
by John C. Dvorak, Opinions, pg. 87.
29 Dec 1998: Network World Fusion -
It's Not an Art; It's a Science (IEEE Paper on Email Attacks),
by Joel Snyder, Today's Focus.
2 Dec 1998:
CSSPAB/NIST Presentation - IEEE AES Tutorial Article
30 Sep 1998: CSSPAB/NIST Presentation - The Langley Cyber Attack
12 Nov 1997: SecureComm 97 West - Toward a Scalable Security Infrastructure
11 Nov 1997: SecureComm 97 West - E-Mail Spam Countermeasures
4 Nov 1997: MILCOM 97 -
Traffic Congestion Measurements in Transit IP Networks
3 Nov 1997: MILCOM 97 -
Simple Framework for Filtering Queued SMTP Mail (Cyberwar Countermeasures)
Note: According to this reference, this paper was first to formalize this model – a model which was later to be adapted by all spam filtering software.
21 September 1996: Tim Bass proposes (invents) Egress (and Ingress) Filtering as a
Solution to the Panix (ISP) Denial of Service Attack,
NANOG. This is the solution used today in the Internet.
1993-1994: SilkRoad (Bass) provides consulting expertise to USAF and
builds original Network Control Center prototype at Langley
AFB.
1992-1993:Provides consulting expertise to Sprint and NSF
during NSFNET (Internet) commercial transition. Includes
global routing, Internet security, integrated network management
services.
