Hacker Halted: SWAG Edition

Published: June 5th, 2008 | Category: Security Conferences | (0) Comments

Because Techno Security 2008 and the Access Data User’s Conference was held during the same time as Hacker Halted, there were a decent amount of vendors on the expo floor. Most of the vendors were forensics oriented like Guidance and Access Data, but I was happy to see Core Security there. Even the NSA, FBI, [...]

Hacker Halted: Summary

Published: June 4th, 2008 | Category: Security Conferences | (1) Comment

 

This was my first time at the Hacker Halted conference, and it was quite enjoyable. I loved the venue, and the talks were informative.
One major disappointment was that Howard Schmidt didn’t talk as planned due to travel issues. It’s not the conference’s fault, [...]

Hacker Halted: Day 3 Notes

Published: June 3rd, 2008 | Category: Security Conferences | (0) Comments

Here are my notes from the third day of the Hacker Halted conference.
An Ethical Hacker’s Perspective to Network Access Control

Antivirus software is just a checkbox to most companies
Layered security is a must
Ghosts in the Browser paper - Tons of drive by downloads
Gartner said by the end of 2007, 75% of enterprises will have malware [...]

Hacker Halted: Day 2 Notes

Published: June 2nd, 2008 | Category: Security Conferences | (0) Comments

Here are my notes from the second day of the Hacker Halted conference.
Inside the Storm

Brandon Enright - Exposing Stormworm presentation

Virtual Worlds - A Wild Frontier Or New World Order?

NDU IRMC - Information Resources Management College
Virtual worlds provide an easy environment for users to get profiled
Many new virtual environments are being created

Some for [...]

Hacker Halted: Day 1 Notes

Published: June 1st, 2008 | Category: Security Conferences | (0) Comments

Here are my notes from the first day of the Hacker Halted conference.
Keynote Address - OSI Exposed & Examined

Level 8 politics, level 9 religion, level 10 economics
$200 per workstation is average for IT budget

10% of that budget should be the security budget at the least

If no security budget, do one or two things [...]

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