I have never attended a Barcamp conference, but have heard good things about them. There was one last year in Des Moines and it is happening again this year.
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009
Time: 8 am – 10 pm
Cost: FREE (food too!)
Location: Impromtu Studio, 300 SW 5th Street, Des Moines, IA 50309
Go to the website for more information. You can register from the site or go here.
-Kevin
Josh pointed out that the date for Septembers meeting was incorrect. It is actually the 28th. I apologize for the confusion. The original post has been updated also.
-Kevin
Date: Monday, September 28th, 2009
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Memory Analysis for Incident Responders and Forensic Analysts
Format: Webcast
Speaker: Rob Lee
Rob Lee is a Director for MANDIANT (http://www.mandiant.com/), a leading provider of information security consulting services and software to Fortune 500 organizations and the U.S. Government. Rob is also the Curriculum Lead for Digital Forensic Training at the SANS Institute (http://forensics.sans.org/). Rob has more than 13 years experience in computer forensics, vulnerability and exploit discovery, intrusion detection/prevention, and incident response. Rob graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy and served in the U.S. Air Force as a founding member of the 609th Information Warfare Squadron, the first U.S. military operational unit focused on Information Operations. Later, he was a member of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations where he conducted computer crime investigations, incident response, and computer forensics. Prior to joining MANDIANT, he directly worked with a variety of government agencies in the law enforcement, Dept. of Defense, and intelligence communities where he was the technical lead for a vulnerability discovery and exploit development team, lead for a cyber forensics branch, and led a computer forensic and security software development team. Rob also coauthored the bestselling book, Know Your Enemy, 2nd Edition. Rob earned his MBA from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Finally, Rob was awarded the “Digital Forensic Examiner of the Year” from the Forensic 4Cast 2009 Awards.
If you are not a member of ISSA and would like to visit to see what we are all about, please go here to register as a guest.
Location: Buccaneer Computer Systems