Ottawa Chapter – HTCIA

Tuesday May 8, 2012 – Tuesday May 8, 2012

141 Catherine St.

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Description:

Cybersecurity:

• Importance of Cybersecurity – Why do we care?
• What is at stake?
• What are Cyber Threats
• Where are the Vulnerabilities
• Reality check: defenders vs. attackers
• Where do we go from here

Biography

President and CEO of KDM Analytics

Djenana Campara has 20+ years of experience and leadership in the software engineering field. Ms. Campara is a member of the Board of Directors of the Object Management Group (OMG). Djenana Campara chairs the OMG Architecture-Driven Modernization Task Force and Software Assurance Special Interests Group, and serves as a board member on the Canadian Consortium of Software Engineering Research (CSER). Previously, Djenana was CTO of Klocwork and chairwoman of Klocwork’s Board of Directors. Djenana founded the company in 2001 as a successful Nortel Networks spin off. She has served as Klocwork’s chief executive officer, securing the company’s first round of funding as well as closing its first customers. She has been awarded four US patents for her groundbreaking static analysis techniques implemented in Klocwork’s products. She has published a number of papers on software transformations, has been quoted in publications, including The Economist and Secure Computing, and has participated in Fortune Magazine’s “Brainstorm 2003,” an international conference of the world’s most creative leaders.

Agenda

5:30-6:15 PM Registration, Networking, Cash Bar and Grill

6:15-6:20 PM Introduction of Speaker

6:20-7:20 PM Presentation

7:20-7:35 PM Question Period

7:35-7:40 PM Closing remarks

Cost

Members: free, included in your annual dues

Non-Members: $15.00

Register

I’ve been asked to post the following announcement on behalf of the National Capital Security Partners Forum:

The National Capital Security Partners’ Forum (NCSPF), is pleased to announce the inaugural event of the “Current Issues and Trends in National Security” Lecture Series, to be held on Thursday, May 31st, 2012 beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the National Arts Centre, 53 Elgin Street at Confederation Square, Ottawa, ON.

Registration is $60 (service fees extra), and includes a cocktail reception. Complimentary parking is provided.

Cocktails at 5:30 p.m. Panel presentation begins at 7:00 p.m. Coffee to follow at 9:30 p.m.

EVENT REGISTRATION:     Click here to register

PARTICIPANTS:

Melissa Hathaway

President of Hathaway Global Securities, LLC; Senior advisor to Project MINERVA, a joint cyber security initiative between the Department of Defense, MIT, and Harvard University; Former acting Senior Director for Cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils

Major-General Doug Dempster (Ret’d)

Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa; Former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Executive Management; Former Deputy Commander of the Canadian Army

Julie Myers Wood

CEO at ICS Consulting, Former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security at DHS-ICE; Former Special Assistant to the President at Executive Office of the President, The White House

Jeffrey Miller

VP and Chief Security Officer National Football League (NFL); Former Commissioner Pennsylvania State Police

Mivil Deschenes, CD

Chief Security Officer RioTinto; Former VP & CSO Alcan; LCol (Ret’d) Military Police

Mike Howard

Chief Security Officer, Microsoft Corporation; Former Section Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency

Lynn Mattice (Moderator)

Managing Director, Mattice and Associates; President and founder of the National Economic Security Grid (NESG); Senior Fellow at George Washington University

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE NCSPF:

• info@nationalcapitalsecuritypartnersforum.ca
• bbutlin@gmail.com
• andreablaustein@yahoo.ca

If you would like a full colour poster for the event, you can obtain it here: NCSPF May 31, 2012

I’ve been asked to post the following announcement as it may be of interest to our membership

COUNTERMEASURE 2012 is Ottawa’s premier computer security conference featuring the best of both offensive and defensive tactics. Computer security is about Countermeasures. If you play defense you aim to contain adversaries by implementing countermeasures. If you play offense you study countermeasures in an attempt to find novel ways to defeat them. And of course some of us play on both sides of the fence. No defensive technique is perfect and no offensive technique is successful every time. Whether it’s the latest social engineering technique or a new memory protection mechanism for your operating system, there are always two sides to consider in computer security.

COUNTERMEASURE 2012, located in Ottawa, Canada, will bring together computer security practitioners from academia, government, the private sector, in addition to hobbyists, to share experience, knowledge, and to collaborate on the new challenges facing our industry.

Conference Mission :

• Showcase the best security research and cutting edge topics – be prepared to be engaged!
• Provide industry leading expert speakers and panelists from around the globe – at both the technical and managerial level.
• Offer a broad range of material – whether you are a CISO or a hobbyist who hacks from your N900, there will be something for you.
• Be inclusive – we welcome everyone from noobs to ninjas and practitioners to executives no matter what your skill and experience level. If you have an interest in computer security or hacking, we want you there!
• Provide a community and focal point for collaboration and networking, allowing you to meet your next research partner, mentor, employee or partner in crime.
• Offer world-class training opportunities with instructors who are leaders in their field – with real world field experience, not PowerPoint slide regurgitators!
• Create an annual event, each year building on our success.

COUNTERMEASURE 2012 key notes, invited talks and speakers selected through our Call For Papers will cover a range of topics:

• Computer Forensics
• Incident Response
• Malware Analysis
• Management-level security
• Mobile Hacking
• Network-level Hacking
• Risk Management
• Reverse Engineering
• Secure Development
• Social Engineering
• Source Code Reviews
• Web Application Hacking

I have uploaded the March presentation to the downloads section. Look under Resources -> Downloads -> Presentations for “March 2012 – The Windows Registry”. You need to have an account to download the presentation.

Tuesday April 10, 2012 – Tuesday April 10, 2012

141 Catherine St.

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Description:

SIEM tools are used by organizations to consolidate and correlate the millions of log events generated by various devices in the network infrastructure into a more manageable amount of data.  In addition, most SIEM tools provide a central logging feature that captures and stores both raw and normalized log data in an easily searchable database.

When an organization has deployed SIEM tools, the data stored and correlation rules available can be extremely useful in investigation of incidents as well as discovering anomalies in user and/or network behaviour.  Correlation can be used in real time to alert administrators to suspicious activity or important events, or on historical data stored by the SIEM to re-construct activities from the log data that is available.

Arcsight ESM is one of the many SIEM tools available, and consistently rates highly in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant”.  This session will go through some of the concepts of SIEM and how it can be used in investigations, using Arcsight ESM for demonstration.  Many of the concepts demonstrated can also be applied to other SIEM tools that organizations may use to implement their SIEM strategy.

Biography

Doug is a Senior Security Consultant with Cistel Technology, and has over 15 years of experience in IT Security operations and consulting, both in the Canadian Federal Government and the private sector.

Doug began in IT Security working for the Correctional Service of Canada, then moved to the private sector to do IT Security consulting with Compaq, HP and now Cistel.  Doug’s primary focus areas are Security Incident and Event Management, Identity Management and IT Security Strategy.

Agenda

5:30-6:15 PM Registration, Networking, Cash Bar and Grill

6:15-6:20 PM Introduction of Speaker

6:20-7:20 PM Presentation

7:20-7:35 PM Question Period

7:35-7:40 PM Closing remarks

Cost

Members: free, included in your annual dues

Non-Members: $15.00

Register