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Date: Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Verizon DBIR
Format: Roundtable
Speaker: N/A

Roundtable Discussion – The Verizon 2010 DBIR:

We will be discussing the 2010 Data Breach study conducted by the Verizon Business RISK team in conjunction with the US Secret Service.  This is the first year for the USSS data so there are some interesting changes from previous years.  You can download the report from the following link.

http://www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/reports/rp_2010-data-breach-report_en_xg.pdf

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Location: Buccaneer Computer Systems

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Date: Monday, May 24th, 2010
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Protecting Your Applications from Backdoors
Format: Speaker
Speaker: Clint Pollock

Protecting Your Applications from Backdoors:
How to Secure Your Business Critical Applications from Time Bombs, Backdoors & Data

With the increasing practice of outsourcing and using 3rd party libraries, it is nearly impossible for an enterprise to identify the pedigree and security of the software running its business critical applications. As a result backdoors and malicious code are increasingly becoming the prevalent attack vector used by hackers.

Whether you manage internal development activities, work with third party developers or are developing a COTS application for enterprise, your mandate is clear- safeguard your code and make applications security a priority for internal and external development teams.

In this session we will cover;

• Prevalence of backdoors and malicious code in third party attacks
• Definitions and classifications of backdoors and their impact on your applications
• Methods to identify, track and remediate these vulnerabilities

Speaker Bio

Clint Pollock is a Senior Solutions Architect at Veracode. Since 1997, he has also created security solutions for large-scale enterprise environments on behalf of CREDANT Technologies and Netegrity. In his current role, Clint helps globally distributed organizations evaluate, track, and mitigate their application security risk.  Clint’s greatest strengths are his enthusiasm, experience and determination to help customers succeed in maintaining secure, compliant systems, and avoid the consequences and bad headlines that come with application security breaches.  Clint resides in Chicago, IL.

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Date: Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Oracle Security Risks
Format: Speaker
Speaker: Stephen Kost

Stephen Kost is the Chief Technology Officer for Integrigy Corporation.  He has been writing about and presenting on Oracle security and auditing for the past 11 years.  He has worked with Oracle products since 1994 in many roles including database administrator, technical architect, IT security auditor, and applications administrator.

Stephen says “For most IT security professionals, the Oracle Database is a security challenge due to the complexity of the database and lack of database experience, especially as these databases often contain an organizations most critical data.  This presentation will focus on a few of the highest risk and most difficult to solve security risks in an Oracle Database environment including security vulnerabilities, password weaknesses, and generic privileged access.  To highlight the unrealized risk of security vulnerabilities in the database, a number of actual patched and un-patched security issues will be demonstrated.  In order to mitigate these risks, resources and best practices for securing an organization’s database will be discussed.”

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Location: Buccaneer Computer Systems

Date: Monday,November 23rd, 2009
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Information Security Incident: Privacy Breach or Not A Privacy Breach?
Format: Speaker
Speaker: Rebecca Herold

There are many types of information security incidents that occur in organizations on a daily basis.  However, information security incidents are not always a privacy breach.  There are currently 48 US state and territory breach notice laws, and they have been joined by the HITECH Act breach response requirements.  Not to mention the FISMA breach response requirements for federal agencies. So, what is a “breach” under these laws?  The general question of “what is a privacy breach” is one that too few organizations have really answered, documented and prepared response plans to cover.  Rebecca will provide different types of incidents and talk with session attendees about whether or not they would be a privacy breach under the HITECH Act in particular, and the other breach response laws in general.  She will also discuss whether notice would be necessary.  The types of incidents discussed will be some that are often not considered when creating incident and breach response plans, but need to be because they occur fairly often.

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Location: Buccaneer Computer Systems

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