Kenneth L. Ingham
Kenneth Ingham Consulting, LLC
1601 Rita Dr NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106-1127
+1 505 262 0602
Summary
Kenneth Ingham has extensive experience in Security, UNIX/Linux/BSD,
and TCP/IP networking. He has developed and taught courses on
these subjects. Since one cannot effectively teach what one does
not know well, Kenneth is also a practicing professional, running Kenneth Ingham Consulting, LLC, a company
which is involved in security for systems and networks, and
secure systems development practices.
Education
- Ph.D.
-
Computer Science, University of New Mexico, May, 2007. My
advisor was Stephanie
Forrest. Dissertation title: Anomaly
Detection for HTTP Intrusion Detection: Algorithm Comparisons and
the Effect of Generalization on Accuracy.
- Master of Science
- Computer Science, University of New Mexico, May 1994.
- Bachelor of Science
- cum laude,
Computer Science with a minor
in Mathematics, University of New Mexico, May 1985.
University Teaching
In the Computer Science
Department at the University of
New Mexico:
In the University Honors
Program at the University of New
Mexico:
- Co-taught with Leslie Gorsline "Zen and the art of paradox
perception", a class for freshmen in the University Honors program,
Spring 1985.
Technical Training
Teaching Strengths
- Class reviews are consistently excellent (copies of student reviews
are available upon request).
- Began teaching and developing technical classes in 1984/1985.
- Have taught for a variety of companies and societies, including
Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, AT&T Bell Laboratories,
Cincinnati Bell Information Systems, DECUS, USENIX, and
UniForum.
- Have taught throughout the United States and Melbourne, Australia
(AUUG 1990), the Isle of Jersey (EurOpen/USENIX 1992), and Germany
(SkillBridge 2006).
- Have taught classes to over 1000 students.
Technical Classes Developed and Taught
- Hardening Linux: Improving the security of your Linux
system
- Linux Operating System Security (with Anil Somayaji)
- Programming Security (with Anil Somayaji)
- Security Overview (with Anil Somayaji)
- An Introduction to Linux
- An Introduction to UNIX
- Linux System Administration on Red Hat
- UNIX System Administration
- Advanced Linux Administration Topics
- Linux for Solaris Administrators
- Advanced UNIX Programming
- Advanced Linux Training For Architects
- Unix/Linux System Programming Interface
- Unix/Linux Programming Tools and Interface
- Linux Programming
- An Introduction to Perl Programming
- UNIX Programming Tools
- An Introduction to the Internet
- Searching for Information on the Internet
- Several customized courses for companies such as SkillBridge Training, Fulcrum Training and
Contracting, Sandia National
Laboratories, Southwest
Cyberport, and Bernalillo
County, the University of New
Mexico.
Classes Taught but Developed by Others
System and Network Administration
Kenneth has been a system and network administrator since 1985.
He has worked with most flavors of UNIX at one time or another,
including (but not limited to): OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, HP-UX,
Irix, NextStep, OpenStep, SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, AIX, SCO Unix,
Xenix, OSF/1.
He has assisted companies with divisions scattered across the
united States with network design, network security, and network
administration. One of these companies has more than 15 different
locations. He has also assisted companies with the design and
implementation of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).
He has designed and implemented custom firewall solutions for
several companies.
He has been involved in pre-security-audit walkthroughs to help
companies prepare for an official security audit. The companies
cannot be listed here due to confidentiality requirements.
World-Wide Web
Kenneth is responsible for a web server serving 10 Internet
domains. He has first-hand experience in the system administration
and security requirements of dynamic web sites using perl and PHP
with the web site ExploreNM.com since 1997.
Publications
Ingham, Kenneth L., Northup, Diana E., Welbourn, W. Calvin, Climate
Modeling for Two Lava Tubes at El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico
USA Presented at the XI International Symposium on
Vulcanospeleology, Pico Island, Azores, 2004. Published in
Proceedings of the X, XI, and XII International Symposium on
Vulcanospeleology, Ramón Espinasa-Pereña and John
Pint editors. Published as AMCS bulletin 19 and SMES Boletín 7
in 2008.
Ingham, Kenneth L., Somayaji, Anil, A Methodology for Designing
Accurate Anomaly Detection Systems, presented at the IFIP/ACM Latin American Networking
Conference 2007.
Ingham, Kenneth L., Inoue, Hajime, Comparing Anomaly Detection
Techniques for HTTP, in the proceedings of the 2007
conference on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection.
Ingham, Kenneth, Somayaji, Anil, Burge, John, and Forrest, Stephanie,
Learning DFA representations
of HTTP for protecting web applications in Computer
Networks, Volume 51, Issue 5, 11 April 2007, pages 1239--1255.
Ingham, Kenneth, Implementing A Successful Secure Coding
Continuing Education Curriculum For Industry: Challenges and Successful
Strategies, in proceedings of the 19th Conference on Software
Engineering Education and Training Workshops, 2006 CSEETW '06 19--21
April 2006.
Ingham, Kenneth and Forrest, Stephanie, Network Firewalls, a chapter
in Enhancing Computer Security with Smart Technology, CRC
Press, 2004. Edited by Prof. V. Rao Vemuri, University of California.
Ingham, Kenneth and Forrest, Stephanie, A History and Survey of
Firewall Technology, UNM Computer Science Department Technical
report
TR-CS-2002-37,
2002.
Northup, Diana E, Mobley, Emily Davis, Ingham, Kenneth L.,
Mixon, William W., (editors and compilers) A Guide to Speleological
Literature of the English Language 1794-1996, Cave
Books, 1998.
Ingham, Kenneth, Northup, Diana E., Welbourn, W. Calvin.
Lava Tube Fire Impact Study El Malpais National Monument New
Mexico Final Report. May 1996.
Ingham, Kenneth, Cicada Serenade, in New Mexico
Wildlife, Volume 37, number 4, July-August 1992.
Ingham, Kenneth, UNIX Tool Building, Academic Press,
1991.
Northup, Diana E., Hardy, James M., and Kenneth L. Ingham.
Arthropod Species Diversity in the Big Room and the Environs.
1988 Cave Research Foundation Annual Report. 1989. pp.
39-40.
Ingham, Kenneth, Keeping Watch Over the Flocks by Night (and
Day), in Proceedings of the Summer 1987 Usenix Conference,
pp 105-110, Phoenix, AZ, June 8-12, 1987.
Northup, Diana E., Hardy, James M., and Kenneth L. Ingham.
Report to the CCNP on Arthropod Species Diversity in the Big Room
and the Environs. 38pp. 1988.
Northup, Diana E., Ziegler, William S., and Kenneth L. Ingham.
Community Structure of the Arthropods of Carlsbad Cavern. 1987
Cave Research Foundation Annual Report. 1988. pp. 30-32.
Ingham, K., Luger, G., Ziegler, W., Hector, a Logic Based
Parser, Semantic Interpreter and Planner, in Proceedings of the
Fourth Annual Phoenix Conference on Computers and
Communication, IEEE, Phoenix, AZ, March 20-22, 1985.
Ingham, Kenneth, Othello & Interactive Computer Graphics on
GIGI, in EDU: The Education magazine of Digital Equipment
Corporation, Summer 1982.
Honors
- On the technical program committee for the Summer 1992 USENIX Conference, San Antonio TX, June
8-12, 1992.
- University of New Mexico Chapter of Association for Computing
Machinery Programming Contest, student division, 1987, third-place
team.
- Association for Computing Machinery Western Regional
Programming Contest, 1986, fifth-place team.
- University of New Mexico Chapter of the Association for
Computing Machinery Programming Contest, student division, 1986,
first-place team.
- Listed in the 2009 Edition of Who's Who in America.
- Listed in the First Edition of Who's Who in Science and
Engineering.
- Listed in the Eighth Edition of Who's Who in Science and
Engineering.
- Listed in the Third edition of Who's Who of Emerging
Leaders in America.
- Listed in the Fourth edition of Who's Who of Emerging
Leaders in America.
- Listed in the 23rd edition of Who's Who in the
West
- Listed in Who's Who Among Young American Professionals
1992-1993
- University of New Mexico College of Engineering Honor Roll of
Distinction, Spring 1982.
- Listed in The National Dean's List for academic year
1981-1982.
Professional Associations