Each week, we’ll highlight a major city in the US and cover the places and events you can go to in that area to get your security information fix. This post is part of the information security communities. Sun, sand and security. South Florida is a great place to go and relax.What will make you [...]

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, [...]

  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, but I thought his talk would be the highlight of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]