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
Date: Monday August 24th, 2009
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: How to Succeed or Fail in Cryptography
Cryptography is hard to do, with many failed examples. Learn from the failures and succeed against the odds. This talk will explain, with examples, common cryptographic pitfalls, solutions, and mitigation strategies. Best practices in policies, procedures, and technology will be discussed. Questions and feedback from the audience are encouraged. If time permits, audience participation will be solicited for experiences in both good and bad cryptography.
Key points:
* Good cryptography is now easy, but bad cryptography is easier.
* Good cryptography is in the details.
* Bad cryptography is often indistinguishable from good.
Format: Webcast
Speaker: Anthony Stieber
Anthony J. Stieber’s first information technology job was in 1991. Since then, he has worked in academia, banks, retail, and insurance; installed military and commercial firewalls; engineered medical diagnostic systems; reverse-engineered Internet stores; encrypted terabyte data warehouses; provided expertise for court cases; spoken at international cryptography conferences; and become an apprentice locksmith and a published writer. He now knows things he can’t talk about, but he is willing to talk about the rest.
Location:
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage – Cambridge Building
7600 Office Plaza Drive S.
West Des Moines, IA
Guests must go through the visitors entrance and show a picture ID, you may also ask for Marti Maxon or Maria Paredes when you arrive
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.
Date: Monday July 27th, 2009
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Threat Matrix
Speaker: Guy Weaver
Guy Weaver is the Senior Systems Engineer for the Central Region at Purewire, Inc. Mr. Weaver has over twenty years experience in the IT industry with a broad range of skills. He holds many certifications including CISSP, CCSP, CEH and ITIL. Guy has worked for one of the largest health care systems in country, was a Networking Practice Manager for a global systems integrator, a Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems covering security and core infrastructure for a Fortune 10 account, and a Systems Engineer at Blue Coat Systems supporting WAN optimization and legacy web gateway customers.
Location: Regular meeting location at Buccaneer Computer Systems.
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.
The Des Moines ISSA chapter is seeking individuals who are interested in speaking at our chapter meetings. The topics and dates we are needing to fill are:
08/24/2009
InfoSec Employment: Finding the Right Job and Hiring the Right Talent
09/29/2009
Security Incident and Event Management
10/26/2009
Regulatory Update: SOX, HIPAA, FISMA and Others
11/23/2009
Outsourced Security: Is it right for you?
If you are interested or know someone who might be, please use the contact form below to let our chapter President, Dave Nelson, know. Please include the date and topic in your note.
Thank you.
Date: Monday June 22nd, 2009
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Electronic Crime Institute
Speaker: Bryan Burkhardt, Director – Electronic Crime Institute @ DMACC
The mission of the Electronic Crime Institute is to provide computer safety, security and investigatory training to a variety of learners including law enforcement, private industry, and the general public.
Location:
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage – Cambridge Building
7600 Office Plaza Drive S.
West Des Moines, IA
Guests must go through the visitors entrance and show a picture ID, you may also ask for Marti Maxon or Maria Paredes when you arrive
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.
Date: Monday May 18th, 2009
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Digital Forensics
Format: Webcast
Speaker: Rob Lee
Rob Lee is a Principal Consultant for MANDIANT, a leading provider of information security consulting services and software to Fortune 500 organizations and the U.S. Government. Rob has over 11 years experience in computer forensics, vulnerability discovery, intrusion detection, and incident response. Rob graduated 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 and computer forensics. Prior to joining MANDIANT, he worked on contracts for a variety of government agencies, where he was the technical lead for a vulnerability discovery team, contractor lead for cyber forensics branch, and led a security software development team. Rob also coauthored the bestselling book, Know Your Enemy, 2nd Edition. In addition to working for MANDIANT and the SANS Institute, Rob is currently pursuing his MBA at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.
Location:
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage – Cambridge Building
7600 Office Plaza Drive S.
West Des Moines, IA
Guests must go through the visitors entrance and show a picture ID, you may also ask for Marti Maxon or Maria Paredes when you arrive
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.
Our President, Dave, received the following and wanted to share it with us all.
Dear David,
As President of ISSA in Des Moines Chapter, we understand the importance of providing avenues and resources to your Members for enhancing their skills and professional development.
We can help you achieve this by offering your members Security Scholarships; all we request you to do is to pass this information to your members and others, so that they will benefit from such an initiative.
I represent EC-Council, a vendor neutral, IT Security certification body with over 22,000 certified members and over 60,000 student members in 60 countries. (http://www.eccouncil.org)
We have recently launched EC-Council| Secure Aid™, a US $100,000 scholarship program to empower and aid those that have been affected by the global economic crisis, regardless of a security professional’s certification affiliation and aims to support national and global security measures on combating cyber crime and cyber terrorism.
Our organizations are similar as we promote resource sharing, networking and advocacy to the benefit of the security community. Therefore, we are hopeful of your support to encourage your members to apply.
Click HERE to find out about Secure Aid and how you can pass on this benefit to your members.
The deadline for submission is June 30th, 2009.
At our April 27th meeting, which was well attended, we held elections for both Vice President and Secretary. The results of the election are now final.
Please join me in welcoming Maria Paredes as our new Vice President and Marti Maxton as our new Secretary.
Congratulations to both of you!
The meeting minutes for that meetings are also available now.
