DENVER, CO --- inSORS CTO and Director of Network Engineering Jon Swanson was recently invited to speak at the SC Global 2001 on the topic of network security issues that arise while conferencing within an IP multicast environment.

Swanson, while utilizing inSORS' Grid technology, addressed an audience of over 100 at the site of the SC Global Conference in the Denver Convention Center from his inSORS Grid Node in Boston.

The SC (Super Computing) Global Conference is the premiere technical and industrial meeting for high-end networking, computing and computational science. This annual event highlights distributed computing technologies-such as the Access Grid-that create an IP web of high speed video, audio, and data communications links among multiple sites. This year's conference was touted as a truly multinational and multicultural meeting place for communication and discussion of ideas relating to high-end computing and communications and their impacts on science and society.

With over 20 years of experience in the computer networking and systems integration fields, and as the architect of many of inSORS' software and network configurations, Swanson was as qualified as he was honored to address an audience consisting of researchers, scientists, and educators from across the globe. "Not only do I get to speak to an elite group on a topic I am passionate about," Swanson said, "but I also am able to demonstrate the power and the practicality of the inSORS Grid at the same time."

Speaking on such issues as the traversal of IP multicast traffic across firewalls, intrusion-detection software, encryption and authentication techniques, application layer security mechanisms, and Internet security protocols, Swanson's interactive address presented his thoughts on the current state of IP multicast security as well as his ideas on the direction of network security in general.

For more information on inSORS, the inSORS Grid, and the inSORS Virtual Venue Communications Portal, visit www.insors.com.