IndySec 5 - Notes

Thirteen people showed up altogether and three of them were new people. I know of atleast five that canceled at the last minute, but that's understandable.

Some random surveys were tossed around like. Favorite O/S, first O/S, etc.

So the favorite O/S amongst the group was any flavor of BSD.

The first O/S seemed to be Red Hat 5.2-7.

Conversations ranged from RFID, to wireless security (mainly deauths with WPA), to sebek, ruby on rails, and a pretty large discussion on USB.

A couple folks talked about disabling USB mass storage devices, by vendor and then later a talk sparked about pam_usb which I blogged about earlier. There is a new version out now that is available via SVN that provides a lot of fixes to the last version.

I did my part by trying to introduce as many people as possible and I think everyone got to know each other alittle more.

What topics is everyone interested in discussing next time?

IndySec 5 - Mingling

Do you [Work|Consult|Research] in [Cyber|Data|Information] Security around the Indianapolis area?

Are you looking to get into this field or just have a interest on some of the topics?

Come to this meeting, eat some food, grab some drinks, talk some geek, and get to know the other people who have similar interests and jobs as yourself.

I'm personally inviting over twenty (maybe more) folks to come to this event. Over the past year I've met way too many people in the area who don't seem to know how many talented people and opportunies surround them.

Make arrangements and join us for fun at Bucca!

When: Thursday, February 22nd, 6:30-8:30PM
Where: Downtown - Buca di Beppo



Buca di Beppo
35 North Illinois Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204

Update: Meet near the bar, we'll count how many people show up and grab some tables to have dinner.

IndySec4 Notes

I will clean this up later. From the meeting discussion. . .

Files are uploaded here:

http://www.virustotal.com/en/indexx.html

Graphical information from VirusTotal (29 vendors):

http://winnow.oitc.com/AntiVirusPerformance.html

Underlying Tabular Data:

http://winnow.oitc.com/malewarestats.php

Castle Cops supports the site.

http://www.castlecops.com/
TrueCrypt
http://www.truecrypt.org/

IndySec4 is Tomorrow Night!

This is a reminder post for IndySec4

Ryan Birk will be discussing full hard disk encryption, in particular a third party product called PointSec for PC. Ryan recently played a very large role in deploying PointSec in a large corporate environment with 2,500 laptops in 19 different sites across the world. After deployment, the enterprise is secured by pre-operating system authentication, full disk encryption, and a centrally managed password reset system.

PointSec has recently gained market share and Checkpoint has just announced its intention to purchase Protect Data, the parent company of PointSec Mobile Technologies.

If time permits, Ryan would also like to have an open discussion about VoIP, IVR hacking and Trixbox formerly known as Asterisk@Home.

Date: January 25th
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: IT building at Michigan and West street (535 W. Michigan St.) IUPUI campus.
Room: We've got the lounge on the first floor from 7pm-9pm - per Sean (Thanks man!)
Food: We will be ordering some pizza. We really need a pizza rsvp system. Seriously.

IndySec 4 - Birk

Ok. It is IndySec Cuatro time.

Let us start by talking about a recent development in information security news -- full disk encryption. On 12/28 /. had an article about a new Presidential Mandate "requiring all agency laptops to fully encrypt data on the HDD". Find the /. article here.

So - let's talk about it.

Ryan Birk will be discussing full hard disk encryption, in particular a third party product called PointSec for PC. Ryan recently played a very large role in deploying PointSec in a large corporate environment with 2,500 laptops in 19 different sites across the world. After deployment, the enterprise is secured by pre-operating system authentication, full disk encryption, and a centrally managed password reset system.

PointSec has recently gained market share and Checkpoint has just announced its intention to purchase Protect Data, the parent company of PointSec Mobile Technologies.

If time permits, Ryan would also like to have an open discussion about VoIP, IVR hacking and Trixbox formerly known as Asterisk@Home.

It's gonna be fantastic!

Date: January 25th
Time: 7:00 ish
Location: We've got the lounge on the first floor from 7pm-9pm - per Sean (Thanks man!)
Food: Pay your own way Pizza! Seriously though, we will get something ordered up and figure it out day of.