Bejtlich, one of the most influential voices on incident response and computer forensics, joins MANDIANT from General Electric where he served as Director of Incident Response and leader of GE’s Computer Incident Response Team.
An exciting conference aimed at security and government professionals takes place March 29-31 in Washington, D.C. GovSec 2011 Conference & Expo offers 30+ sessions in four tracks including Protecting from Cyberterrorism and Cybercrime. You can find out more about these and speakers here: http://bit.ly/GovSecCS
TakeDown will offer some of the most sought-after information security
training that will equip you with the skills to defend your IT security
infrastructures. It covers topics such as Ethical Hacking, Computer
Forensics, Penetration Testing, Application Security, Social
Engineering, and Physical Security, among others. Some of the available
training at TakeDownCon Dallas 2011:
Today, March 10 at 10:30am EST the President, First Lady, the Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Services will welcome students, parents, and teachers to the White House for a Conference on Cyber-Bullying Prevention.
Cyber bullying is bullying through digital communication technologies such as emails, instant messaging, text-messages, digital photos, web postings, and other means of electronic communications.
The conference begins with opening remarks by The President and the First Lady on bullying prevention.
SecurityOrb is proud to be one of the Premier Education Partners of the brand new TakeDownCon series, which will be making its debut in Dallas, TX, from May 14 – 19, 2011
A Doctoral Student in Information Assurance is conducting a survey with the goal of understanding the collective IT perception of patch management along with any associated misconceptions relative to how vendors actually handle patch releases/cycles.
Another exciting edition of Hackin9 is out and you can download it here. Information about this edition is located below:
· Wuala – Secure Online Storage
There are a lot of online storage/backup solutions available nowadays and it is hard to find differences between them, but I think Wuala from LACIE may have something unique in the way their solution works.
NetSmartz is a very informative site geared towards aiding with the awareness efforts on how to better protect our kids while online. They have an excellent collection of data pertaining to how bad the situation is on the gap between parents understanding what their teens are doing online below:
Teen Internet Safety Study
A survey commissioned by Cox Communications and NCMEC2 found that
Teen Internet Usage and Attitudes about Safety Present Potential Risks but also Opportunities for Education and a Role for Watchful Parents and Guardians
CEIC is one of the largest international gatherings of legal, IT, law enforcement, and government attendees that focus on the latest developments in the digital investigations field. Industry experts, decision-makers and influencers attend CEIC year after year for a high-quality educational program and valuable networking opportunities.
