[PLUG] Informal security chat

alan alan at clueserver.org
Thu Oct 5 17:00:15 UTC 2006


On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Kris wrote:

> Would anyone be interested in an informal round-table security discussion?
>
> I have all these best practices and principles, but would like to
> discuss what other people are using, and how conditions and process can
> be improved.  I could gather a summary of our discussions and turn it
> into a presentation for the monthly meeting.
>
> Topics I'm interested in (both listening to and giving my experiences on):
>
> * Local storage encryption: performance and management
> * Key and passphrase management: multi-employee consulting
> environments, change control
> * Passphrase generation
> * Tinfoil-hat vs. practical use of security practices
> * Log/IDS analysis: useful, and time effective methods of parsing large
> amounts of data
> * Tying it all together: system, network, application security..
> finding the weak points
> * vi vs. emacs (j/k)
>
> I could host this at my place in Tigard.  Probably host it on a Friday
> evening this month or early Nov.  If at least 5 others are interested
> I'll make preparations.  Keep replies on list if possible.  Interest may
> spark interest. :)

I would be interested, but I have no way to get to Tigard and back.

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