[PLUG] Invite: Informal security chat - Oct 20th
Kris
krisa at subtend.net
Thu Oct 5 22:05:05 UTC 2006
Ok, we have more than 5. :)
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Informal Security Chat
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What:
Geeks gather and talk about practical security practices and personal
experiences in attempting to provide a more secure computing
environment. Emphasis on GNU/Linux, all UNIX's basically apply.
Why:
After working on a recent system with LVM, dm-crypt, OpenVPN, etc., I
was curious how others handled the problems I was trying to solve, to
see the creativity of others and to provide my own experiences to those
who might benefit.
When:
October 20th, 2006
Start gathering around 18:30 to begin at 19:00. I can go fairly late,
but lets say we cap it at midnight.
Where:
http://www.subtend.net/contact
Informal agenda:
* 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
* securing off-site backups
* working with users to determine appropriate security policies
* administrative password change policies and practices
* wireless networking security practices and configurations
Notes:
* This isn't necessarily a meeting on crypto. I doubt many of us will
be able to argue the strength and math of Blowfish vs. AES. Flame wars
such as SSL vs. IPsec are more appropriate. :)
* Please RSVP. If more than 15 want to show up, there might be a
seating/space problem.
--
I'm just a packet pusher.
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