AISA Sydney Branch Meeting: Information security and the human element, or is that ailment?

Starts: Tuesday 21 February 2012, 8:00AM

Finishes: Tuesday 21 February 2012, 10:00AM

Time: 8:00am for prompt 8:15am start of presentation, 10:00am expected close.

 

Venue: Westpac, 60 Martin Place, Plaza Level (Ground Floor) Meeting Centre

 

1st Presentation:

Topic: Hey! You! Get off My Computer!

Let's face it, Windows machines can get hacked, and in some environments it happens a lot. Fortunately, Microsoft has built numerous tools into Windows so administrators and power users can analyse machines to determine whether they've been compromised. But many of us are not even aware of that! In this session I'll demonstrate the tools built into Windows for such analysis, as well as more free tools from Microsoft to help you out get of chaos! If you have ever had a virus in your PC than attending this session is a must for you.

Speaker: Erdal Ozkaya from Fastlane APAC

Erdal travels across Australia teaching IT workshops and has served as Project Manager/Engineer for several large organisations in Australia, China, Philippines and the USA.

Erdal actively participates in worldwide events as a Technical Lead and Speaker. He has been awarded "Best Technical Learning Guide" and "Best Speaker" at Microsoft Technical Education Seminars (TechEd) Australia. The passion and commitment that Erdal has shown to his work has been recognised by Microsoft with the bestowal of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award as Windows Expert - IT Pro. Erdal Ozkaya was the first Microsoft Certified Learning Consultant in Australia. Recently, he was announced by EC-Council as "Instructor of the Year 2011".

2nd Presentation:

Topic: Securing the Human - Patching your Employee's Brain

In any security system the human element has always been considered one of the weakest links. Some significant security breaches in 2011 have again confirmed this dogma. This presentation will provide you with the context and examples on why humans are prone to cyber attacks and will outline an approach on how humans can be educated to change their default "insecure" behaviour.

Speaker: Pieter Danhieux from SANS Training and stratsec

Pieter Danhieux is one of the few instructors for the SANS Institute in APAC, teaching military, government, and private organizations offensive techniques on how to target and assess organisations, systems, and individuals for security weaknesses. He is also one of the founders of the security and hacking conference BruCON in Belgium, where he has designed and run cyber-intrusion exercises (The Hex Factor) across Europe since 2009 together with a group of talented people. He is also part of the Advisory Board for the SANS Securing the Human project.

Pieter has more than 10 years of experience in the security space and is currently one of the select few people worldwide to hold the GIAC Security Expert (GSE) certification. He currently manages the professional services group in Sydney at BAE Systems stratsec, Australia's strongest and most awarded infosec team. Before that, Pieter worked for seven years at Ernst and Young in Europe as one of their information security experts running a team of attack and penetration resources operating in the financial industry and telecommunication space.

 

Many thanks to our sponsors:

AISA thanks Westpac for providing the venue for our Sydney Branch meetings in 2011.

 

 

AISA thanks Tier-3 for their sponsorship of this meeting.