National Information Security Group

Presentation Archive (Boston Chapter)

Date Topic(s) Other Information / Downloads
11/2008 "Security Certifications,"
Charlie Brooks and Cynthia Phillips (Brandeis University Information Assurance Program);
Paul Bowen and Jeff Smyth
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   Certifications and Education in Information Security
   (Paul Bowen)
   Security+ and DoD Directive 8570
   (Jeff Smyth)
   Information Assurance Programs for
   Continuing Education (Charlie Brooks and Cynthia Phillips)

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  "Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,"
Jack Daniel (Astaro)		 - View the presentation slide show (HTML format)
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10/2008 "Nessus,"
George (Tenable Network Security)
 		 - Presentation not available
  "An Overview of Domestic Terrorism,"
United States FBI, Boston Office		 - Presentation not available
09/2008 "The Use of Technology and Security in Jewelry Theft Investigation,"
Dennis Thomas (Zale Corporation)		 -View the presentation slide show (HTML format)
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06/2008 "Encryption Strategies: Protecting Sensitive Data at Rest & in Motion,"
Ray Zamagni (PGP Corporation)		 -View the presentation slide show (HTML format)
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05/2008 "Internet Security Solutions,"
Jody Gibney (Symantec)		 -Presentation not available
04/2008 "It's All About The Data,"
Steve Tassinari (Varonis)		 -View the presentation
03/2008 "How Hackers Think and Work,"
Paul Bowen (FAS)
 		 - Presentation not available
  "The Application Security Maturity Model,"
Ed Adams (Security Innovation)		 - View the presentation (PDF format, 1 MB)
- View the supplement (PDF format, 160 KB)
02/2008 "Don't Tell Me What, Tell Me Whom: Correlating User Identity to Threat Information,"
(Q1 Labs)  		 - Presentation not available
01/2008 "Deploying Trusted Computing Systems,"
Chris Cahalin (Papa Gino's / D'Angelo)		 -View the presentation
11/2007 "Security Outsourcing: An IT Department Brain-Drain or The only Sane Way to Travel the Cyber-Frontier?"
Bill Brenner (TechTarget SearchSecurity)
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  "Writing For IT Pros - An Overview of the TechTarget Security Media Group"
Bill Brenner (TechTarget SearchSecurity)		 -View the presentation
10/2007 "Free and Open Source Software Enterprise Security Solutions,"
Joseph Guarino, Evolutionary IT		 -View the presentation (PDF format, 1 MB)
09/2007 "Seven Lies of Information Security,"
Jack Daniel (Mass Buying Power and NAISG New England Chair)
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  "Security and Exchange Server 2007,"
Lee Benjamin (ExchangeGuy)		 -View the presentation (PDF format, 2 MB)
06/2007 "An Evening with the Pragmatic CSO,"
Mike Rothman (The Daily Incite)		 - Presentation not available
05/2007 Birds of a Feather Discussions:
> Identity Theft and Protection
> The Job Market for Security Professionals
> Data Recovery and How to Smash a Disk to Smithereens		 - No electronic presentations were given
04/2007 "The Top Web Application Hack Attacks,"
Danny Allan (WatchFire)		 -View the presentation (PDF format, 6 MB)
03/2007 "Third Party Patching,"
Bill Brenner (TechTarget SearchSecurity)		 -View the presentation
02/2007 "Security TechTips - Issues of the Day."  Special presentation provided to the Cascade Lakes Computer Club, by
Brad Dinerman (MIS Alliance)
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  "Panel Discussion: Identity Theft and Protection - Corporate Responsibility and Consumer Options,"
Panelists:
> Ed Adams (Security Innovation)
> Steven Bearak (IdentityForce)
> Charles Kolodgy (IDC)
> William Straus (Massachusetts State Representative)
Moderator: Bradley Dinerman (NAISG)		 -Download the MP3 recording of the panel discussion (44 MB)
01/2007 "The Seven Best Practices for Security in 2007,"
Gary Miliefsky (NetClarity)
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  "Windows Vista Security Overview,"
Tom Sullivan (Microsoft)		 -View the presentation
11/2006 "Child Pornography and the Workplace: A Guide For System Administrators,"
Melissa Royer (Defender Data Recovery and Forensics Services)
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  "Employee Surveillance and Monitoring,"
Brad Dinerman (MIS Alliance)		 -View the presentation
10/2006 "The World of Cyber Terrorism,"
Charles Kaplan (Mazu Networks)
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  "Identity Theft, Credit Card Transactions and PCI Compliance/Certification,"
Derek Kolakowski (Rapid7)		 -View the presentation
09/2006 "Laptop Encryption and the Trusted Computing Platform,"
Steven Sprague (Wave Systems)		 -View the presentation
06/2006 "Computer Intrusion and Internet Fraud," and "An Introduction to InfraGard,"
Special Agents Alison King and Douglas Domin (United States FBI, Boston Division)
 		 -Presentation not available
  "Proactively Hardening Your Windows Network,"
Gary Miliefsky (NetClarity)		 -View the presentation
05/2006 "PYVNC2SWF,"
Jack Daniel (Mass Buying Power)
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  "The State of Security in 2006,"
Andy Briney (Information Security Magazine)		 -View the presentation
04/2006 "Patch Management and Real-World Security Measures,"
Jack Daniel (Mass Buying Power)
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  "Legal Implications of E-Mail,"
Craig Carpenter (Mirapoint)		 -View the presentation
03/2006 "Helix,"
Melissa Royer (Defender Data Recovery and Forensic Services)
 		 -No presentation to view.  Demo only.
  "Disk-Based Backups for Increased Information Security,"
Dave Therrien (ExaGrid Systems)		 -View the presentation
02/2006 "Metasploit: What's In Your Security Tool Box?,"
Brad Loomis (Blue Lane Technologies)
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  "Steganography,"
Glenn Watt (Backbone Security)		 -View the presentation (6.5 MB PDF)
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01/2006 "Developing Security Patches - Whose Responsibility Is It And What Are The Implications?,"
Ed Adams (Security Innovation)		 -View the presentation

-LiveMeeting recording of presentation (7.8 MB WMV)
12/2005 "Information Security in the Next Decade,"
Dr. Tanya Zlateva (RISCS, Boston University)
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  "Securing the Desktop,"
Todd Brennan (Bit9 Parity)		 -View the presentation
11/2005 "Introduction to SQL Server 2005,"
Burt King (Acushnet Company)
 		 -Presentation not available
  "Securing Active Directory Administration,"
Nick Cavalancia (ScriptLogic)		 -View the presentation
10/2005 "Securing Voice Over IP (VoIP),"
Gary Miliefsky (NetClarity)
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 -White Paper: Securing Your VoIP (128 KB PDF)
09/2005 "FBI Cyber Investigations and Computer Forensics,"
Jim Burrell (United States FBI)
 		 -Presentation not available
  "The Death of Perimeter Defense - Secrets of Application Security,"
Ed Adams (Security Innovation)		 -View the presentation
White Papers:
-Windows vs. Linux Web Server Role Security Research Study
-The Insider, Naivety and Hostility (934 KB PDF)
-Other White Papers
06/2005 "Federated Identity,"
Peter Kellis (RSA Security)
 		 -Presentation not available
  "Securing Web Services,"
David Low (RSA Security)
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  "Mitigation: A Follow-up to 'Ways to Guarantee that Your Network Gets Compromised,'"
Paul Bowen (NEISG Board of Directors)		 -View the presentation
05/2005 "Demonstration of Lavasoft AdAware Enterprise Edition,"
Brad Dinerman (MIS Alliance)
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  "PBX Hacking,"
Thomas Donovan (XO Communications)
Christopher Doggett (FireTower)
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  "Ways to Guarantee that Your Network Gets Compromised: An Interactive Discussion,"
Joshua Lutz (Goodwin & Procter)		 -Discussion notes not available
04/2005 "Web Application Security,"
Jim Weiler, (OWASP - Boston Chapter)
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  "Network Access Protection,"
Gene Ferioli (Microsoft)		 -Presentation not available
03/2005 "Information Warfare: Understanding the Threat,"
Dan Bezilla (Secure Elements)
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  "Administrative Passwords Management,"
Ron Zoran (Cyber-Ark)
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  Discussion on the threats to the privacy of your personal information,
by Tom Austin (Internet Business Group)		 -View the ACLU video on the right to privacy (Flash movie format)

-View the MATRIX (Multi-State Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange) presentation
02/2005 "Crossing the Line: A Panel Discussion on Issues and Ethics in the Security Field." -Presentation not available
  The panelists were:

James Burrell, United States FBI, Counterintelligence/Counterterrorism/Criminal Computer Intrusion, Cyber Crime, and Computer Analysis Response Team (CART) Programs
Mark Minasi, author of Mastering Windows Server 2003, regular columnist for Windows and .NET Magazine and speaker in security road shows
Sanford Sherizen, criminologist, president of Data Security Systems and member of ISSA Hall of Fame
Stephen Heymann, Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of the U.S. Attorney's Appellate and Computer Crime Section
01/2005 "Top Ten Ways to Combat Spyware,"
Andrew Ostrom (InterMute)
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  "Blended Threats,"
Dmitri Alperovitch (CipherTrust)		 -View the presentation
12/2004 "Virtual Servers, for Fun, Consolidation, Disaster Recovery and Security Testing"
Paul Bowen (NEISG Board of Directors)
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  "Building a Honeypot with VirtualPC"
Joe Kinsella (SilverBack Technologies)		 -View the presentation
11/2004 "Intrusion Detection and Prevention"
Harold Belbin (SonicWall)
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  "Proactive Network Security Management: Lock The Doors Rather Than Listen For Burglars"
Gary Miliefsky (PredatorWatch) and Bob Martin (MITRE) 		-View the PredatorWatch presentation
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10/2004 "Security Adviser"
Wayne Pierce (NEISG Board of Directors)
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  "Network Auditing: An Overview of NESSUS"
Ian Evans (Lockheed Martin)		 -View the presentation
-Nessus for Windows Users (28 KB PDF)
09/2004 "Third Generation Firewalls"
John Amaral (Network Engines)
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  "Cognometrics: A New Class of Personal Authentication"
James Melonas (Real User)		 -View the presentation
-Components and Functionality (136 KB PDF)
-Technology and Products (620 KB PDF)
 
  "The Insider Threat"
Justin Bingham (Intrusic)		 -Presentation Not Available
06/2004 "HIPAA and Security"
Drew Williams (ConfigureSoft) and (SummitWatch)
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  "Secure Solutions for Healthcare"
Margie Cashwell (RSA Security)		 -View the presentation
05/2004 "Social Psychology and Information Security"
Michel E. Kabay (University of Norwich)
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  "Top 10 Best Practices for Identity and Access Management"
Andrey Agamov (Computer Associates)
 		 -Presentation not available
  Humorous images shown during the meeting introduction
[Original source of images unknown]		 -Hackers Can Turn Your Home Computer into a Bomb
-BlueTooth Device Tries to Configure An Airbus
04/2004 "Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems in the Small-Medium Enterprise Market"
Rick Hedeman (WatchGuard Technologies)		 -View the presentation
03/2004 "Physical Security Risk Assessment"
Dan O'Neill (Applied Risk Management)
 		 -Presentation not available
  "Top 10 Legal Pitfalls: From Piracy to Privacy"
Renee Inomata (Burns and Levinson, LLP)
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  Miscellaneous URLs from Brad Dinerman's discussion of anti-spyware tools and Google usage - "Spy vs. Spy: AdAware vs SpyBot S&D"
(Original article online at FlexBeta.net, or download PDFs part 1, part 2 and part 3.)
- "Googling Up Passwords"
(Original article online at SecurityFocus.com, or download PDF)
02/2004 "Security for the Small Business IT Administrator"
Brad Dinerman (MIS Alliance)
 		 
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  "Top 10: Remote Access Methods - Some That Are Useful and Some That Will Plague You"
Joshua Lutz (Goodwin-Procter)		 
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01/2004 "Moderated, Open Forum on Windows Patch Management"
Tom Sullivan (Microsoft Corporation)
 		 
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  "Top 10: Free Tools to Eliminate Spyware and Malware"
Paul Bowen (ESC CIO Office, Hanscom Air Force Base)		 
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12/2003 "Trojan Wars, or Whose Computer is it Anyway?"
Kevin Sullivan (Splitstream Technologies)
 		 
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  "Top 10: Ways to Avoid Identity Theft"
Wayne Pierce (Mishré Advisory Group)		 
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11/2003 "Network Penetration Testing: Understanding the Attacker's Perspective"
Maximiliano Cáceres (Core Security Technologies)
 		 
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-Addendum to presentation
(includes URLs for tools
and sites discussed)
  "Top 10: Ways to Prevent a Virus"
Wayne Pierce (Mishré Advisory Group)		 
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10/2003 "Distro-Kit"
Kevin Sullivan (C3 Group)
 		 
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  "Stress Test Your Security Network"
Sanjay Raja (Spirent Communications)
 		 
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  "Network Forensics"
Simson Garfinkel		 
-Presentation not available
09/2003 "Anatomy of a Database Attack"
Steve Migliore (Application Security, Inc.)		 
-Presentation not available
08/2003 "How Hackers Launch Web Attacks"
Matthew Fisher (SPI Dynamics)		 
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(PDF format, 2.1 MB)
05/2003 "Wireless Technology Overview and the SonicWall SOHO TZW"
Harold Belbin (SonicWall)		 
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-"Wireless Site Survey and
Placement Guide for SOHO TZW"
  "Electronic Fraud"
The United States Secret Service (New England Electronic Crimes Task Force)		 
-Presentation not available
04/2003 "Security Simplified"
Wayne Pierce (Mishré Group)		 
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03/2003 "Virus Issues on Linux/UNIX Systems"
Chris Wraight (Sophos, Inc.)
 		 
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  "Network Decoys"
Bill Stearns (SANS)		 
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02/2003 "Configuring Windows 2003 Server for Smart-Card Authentication"
Alex Voysest (Microsoft / Waltham)
 		 
-Presentation not available
  "Remote Access Solutions: IPSec vs SSL"
Glenn Fitzgerald (Netilla Networks)		 
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01/2003 "Security Certifications"
(Boston University Corporate Education Center)
 		 
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  "Biometric Authentication"
David Ting (Imprivata, Inc.)		 
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12/2002 "Wireless Security"
Gregory Thomas (AirDefense)		 
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(PDF format, 8.3 MB)
11/2002 "'Time' for Security"
Scott Mustard (Symmetricom)
 		 
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  "Authentication and Authorization in IIS"
Patrick Hynds (Critical Sites)		 
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10/2002 "E-Mail Lockdown"
John Korsak (Ipswitch Software)		 
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-Download agenda, spam sample and Whois info
09/2002 "Johnny Q. Hacker"
Mike Tippets (SonicWall)
 		 
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08/2002 "Firewall Technologies"
Anthony Alves (SonicWall)		 
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