The Truths and Myths of Virtualization Security

Starts: Wednesday 21 April 2010, 4:45PM

Finishes: Wednesday 21 April 2010, 7:00PM

Venue: BDO, Level 15, HSBC Building, 300 Queen Street, Brisbane Qld 4000

Topic: The Truths and Myths of Virtualization Security

This talk takes you through where virtualization security is today. Focusing around VMware, although the topics discussed apply to any virtualization platform vendor, we look at the areas of risk, uncover some myths. We look at architecture and design, management and operations, what you should be doing, and dangers to be aware of. Lastly we look at the importance of monitoring and continual assessment in the dynamic world of virtualization. This talk will include a demo of VMinformer to highlight the need for assessing the security of virtual environments.

Speaker: John Reeman, Technical Director, Nebulas Solutions (from U.K.)

John Reeman has been involved in IT Security for the last 18 Years. Graduating in 1991 with a BSc in Software Engineering, he went to work for Integralis in the UK and then after 18 months working in their support team he decided life was to short and embarked on an adventurous world tour visiting 13 countries. During his travels he visited a number of countries including Australia where he helped establish a company that went on to be known as Content Technologies which produced one of the worlds leading E-mail gateway content solutions, namely MAILsweeper. On returning to the UK John worked as a consultant for a number of companies before establishing his own company, Nebulas Solutions Group in 2001.

Many thanks to our sponsors:

AISA thanks Trend Micro for sponsoring this meeting.

AISA thanks BDO for providing the venue for our Brisbane Branch meeting.