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

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

Measuring and Communicating Risk with FAIR:

Measuring and communicating risk is a challenging task. Having a repeatable, well understood method of measuring risk that is based on a common taxonomy is very important. Factor Analysis of Information Risk provides both a framework for defining and understanding risk and a basic method of analyzing and communicating that risk.

Speaker Bio

Kevin Riggins, CISSP has over 22 years of experience in information technology and has focused on Information Security since 1999. He has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional since 2004 and currently works for a Fortune 500 financial service company where he leads a team of information security analysts responsible for internal consulting, risk assessments and vendor security reviews. He writes about various information security topics on his blog, Infosec Ramblings ( http://www.infosecramblings.com), has been published in (IN)Secure magazine, and is a frequent speaker at conference and industry association meetings. He has served as the technical editor for Syngress on several books; CISSP Study Guide, CompTIA Linux+ Certification Study Guide (2009 Exam), and Eleventh Hour Linux+.

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

Iowa’s Breach Notification Law (SF 2308)

We will be reviewing the provisions of Iowa’s breach notification law (SF 2308) and the impact to our organizations. This will be a round table discussion.

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.

Note: Location has changed for the June Meeting.

Integrity Technology Systems, Inc.
2525 N. Ankeny Boulevard, Suite 111, Ankeny, IA 50023
Cell: 515.333.2260  |  Phone: 515.965.3756  |  www.ensureintegrity.com | dave.nelson@ensureintegrity.com

Please RSVP by calling or emailing Dave Nelson.

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.

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

Kevin Riggins, author of InfoSec Ramblings (http://www.infosecramblings.com), which hosts one of the most popular Backtrack install how-to’s, will be giving a quick demonstration of how to install Backtrack to a USB thumb drive and then give a couple of demonstrations on some of the capabilities of this tool.

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

This month’s meeting will be a round table discussion about security monitoring. Come join the conversation.

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Location: Buccaneer Computer Systems

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

Jim will be walking us through all 7 of the OSI layers and how they work together. Understanding how the OSI stack works together is more important today than ever.

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Location: Buccaneer Computer Systems

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.

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

Location: ISU ISEAGE Lab

Join the Des Moines chapter for a day of learning and experimentation with hacking tools at the ISU Internet Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) Lab. The ISEAGE lab will be configured with a simulated environment which models the real internet. Attendees will be given a computer with attack tools for their   experimentation and may work in teams or individually.

REGISTRATION DUE BY 10/19/2009

Cost to members is free, non-members pay $25.00, but $20 can be put towards an ISSA membership.

Location information and a few more details can be seen in this flyer: Des Moines ISSA Hacking Event

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