HiTech Crime and Honeypots

Starts: Wednesday 15 September 2010, 5:15PM

Finishes: Thursday 15 September 2011, 7:00PM

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

Topic: HiTech Crime and Honeypots - Cybercrime by its nature is carried out by technically astute criminals who exploit esoteric vulnerabilities in systems. Operating outside the physical world, these criminals cross national and legal boundaries using sophisticated techniques. This meeting aims to provide members with an overview of the challenges faced in fighting cybercrime and some examples of strategies that are employed.

Speakers: Allan Watt and Benjamin Reardon

Allan Watt leads the e.forensics team at e.law Asia Pacific. He is a fully qualified, independent computer forensic expert who specialises in all aspects of e.forensics from initial acquisition to expert testimony before the court.

Synopsis for Allan's presentation:

Electronic records recovered through e.forensics analysis has been used as material evidence in cases unrelated to high tech crime such as in divorce settlement. This presentation explores the application of e.forensics techniques.

 

The Principal Consultant and Founder at Dataviz Australia, Benjamin Reardon specialises in the provision of cybercrime intelligence at both a tactical and strategic level. Since 2002, he has worked in the Australian finance sector. In addition to traditional IT security services, he developed a specialty in the technical response to banking trojans and phishing in 2003, and then expanded his role into developing and maintaining key external partnerships with external industry groups in the finance sector, Law enforcement and research community on a global basis.

Synopsis for Benjamin's presentation:

This presentation discusses the tools and techniques used in the Australian Honeynet project (http://honeynet.org.au). There will be a  demonstration of several visualisation techniques showing how these can be used to identify outliers, anomalies and trends in security data.

Many thanks to our sponsors:

AISA thanks Message Labs for sponsoring this meeting.

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