Next meeting Thursday February 4th.
Join us this Thursday for lunch and a presentation from Jason Drury on:
Low Cost/High Return Security Information Management (SIM)
Learn how you can utilize OSSIM (Open Source Security Information Management) to leverage the best of breed open source tools to provide a complete security solution for your company and your customers very affordably. Do not let the word "open source" fool you. This is a very powerful tool.
Noon @
Cafe Pierremont
920 Pierremont Rd # 110
Shreveport, LA 71106
No meeting for the month of January.
With the holidays behind us, many speakers and members are still out of town, we decided to take a month off and give everyone a chance to recuperate. We will start the new year in February with more talks and events. Check back often as we will be posting more updates and events soon. We hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and we look forward to seeing everyone again next month.
Thanks,
Ark-La-Tex ISSA
Next meeting December 3rd.
This month, Clay Poser will be presenting the results from his research into Information Security to Professionals and Insiders.
Here is a little piece of it:
Academic research has shown that the perception of organizational information security varies between security professionals and "ordinary" employees, which we refer to organizational insiders. What exactly are the differences in understanding, and how wide are the potential gaps? What, if any, are the similarities? This presentation helps answer these questions by comparing and contrasting the responses from interviews conducted with 11 information security experts and 22 organizational insiders across various industries. The findings should be important for security professionals to better understand what their colleagues believe about information security threats, their beliefs of their personal responsibility to protect the organization, and their various motivations to engage in protective behaviors.
Noon @
Cafe Pierremont
920 Pierremont Rd # 110
Shreveport, LA 71106
Next Chapter meeting Nov. 5th.
SHARING THE VISION with the CEO
For years, IT in general and IT Security specifically has tried to catch the eye of the CEO. Here is one technique to gain the CEO’s attention and encourage action. Use a complete, concise, clear, relevant, and transparent scorecard to keep leadership, management and staff updated on security current status and direction.
Presented by Glenn Pettiet
Noon @
Cafe Pierremont
920 Pierremont Rd # 110
Shreveport, LA 71106
Next meeting Oct. 15th
IMPORTANT: Meeting changed. See below
Due to our regular meeting place being closed this Thursday, our next chapter meeting will be held Thursday, Oct. 15th. We are sorry for the inconvenience and we are working to setup a backup meeting location if this were to happen again in the future.
Our speaker will be Adam Richards discussing Social network application hacking. Here is a preview of the talk:
When Social Networking sites allow programmers access to the server side API, vulnerabilities are bound to show up quickly. We are going to step through some of the latest (and some zero day) hacks that can be exploited against Facebook and others. Also, how to protect yourself from others who are already exploiting these in the wild. Invite a friend for lunch, learning and hopefully take away something new.
Next meeting (Sept. 3rd) - Wireless hacking for fun and profit...but mostly fun.
Adam Richards will demonstrate advances in wireless hacking tools and techniques, with live demos and more.
Noon @
Cafe Pierremont
920 Pierremont Rd # 110
Shreveport, LA 71106
No July Monthly Meeting
Due to the fact many members will be unable to make the scheduled July meeting (July 2nd) and it is the day before a long holiday, we will not be having a July monthly meeting. Check back shortly for information regarding the August meeting.
Keith Hanson's Presentation Available for Download
Keith Hanson's Presentation, How to Pwn Like a Ruby Rockstar - Part 1, and sample ruby script are available in the "Downloads" section.
Dues Update
We have contacted ISSA International, and when you join our chapter (or renew), you will not have to pay any additional local chapter dues. For those who have already paid for this year, we will be contacting you to regarding reimbursement of the local chapter dues that you had to pay.
Next Meeting (Jun 04) - How to Pwn Like a Ruby Rockstar - Part 1
Keith Hanson (creator of http://tweetingtoohard.com/) will discuss Ruby programming language and how it can be used for security professionals. This is a two part talk and for part 1 Keith will give an introduction to Ruby and Object Oriented Programming. If you want to get started with Ruby, Keith recommends you download and install Ruby on Rails from here: http://rubyonrails.org/download
Noon @
Cafe Pierremont
920 Pierremont Rd # 110
Shreveport, LA 71106
