Defending Your Weakest Link…End Users

Starts: Monday 11 July 2011, 5:15PM

Finishes: Monday 11 July 2011, 7:30PM

Venue: ANZ, Core B Conference Suite, 833 Collins Street, Docklands

Topic: Defending Your Weakest Link…End Users
In most organisations, a single end-user's click is all it takes to put critical assets at risk. Hackers mercilessly leverage our ignorance, arrogance and apathy. Traditional defences are failing us. We're being hit from every angle: anti-virus evasion, full disk encryption bypass, flash drives, drive-by downloads, social networking, resumes, smart phones, web portals (e.g. Outlook Web Access), open wireless networks, attachments, social-engineering and so much more.

We must understand the true risk we face in today's threatscape if we are to have a chance to defend ourselves.

This presentation will highlight some of the most salient threats our end users face both in and out of the office and what can be done to mitigate them.

Speaker: Bryce Galbraith
Bryce is currently the CEO at Layered Security, where he provides vulnerability assessment and penetration testing services to clients around the world. Bryce teaches several of SANS' most popular courses and develops curriculum for current topics. Bryce is an active member of several security-related professional organisations, he speaks at a variety of conferences, and holds a number of certifications: CISSP, GCIH, GSEC, CEH, CHFI, Security+, and CCNA. Bryce blogs about security issues at http://blog.layeredsec.com.

Many thanks to our sponsors:

AISA thanks SANS for sponsoring this meeting.

AISA thanks ANZ for providing the venue for our Melbourne Branch meetings.