The physical and economic risks created by insecure networks
worldwide should be our primary security concern. Our nation alone uses
roughly 60% of all of the IP addresses in the world. This means that our
risk of cyber attack is higher than any other nation. This presentation
will talk about the needs, the risks, the vulnerabilities and the
solutions to the problem of well-aimed attacks against our networks and
against key infrastructure components.
Extending the Usefulness of Group Policy
- Kevin Sullivan or
AutoProf
This will be a presentation on extending the usefulness of Group
Policy. The focus area would be on custom ADM templates, policies vs.
preferences, scripting configuration solutions and Client Side Extensions
of Group Policy. This topic would be pretty technical and not specific to
our solutions but the last section would be essentially why we (AutoProf)
focus our attention at extending Group Policy with Client Side
Extensions. It is a very hot topic in that Group Policy adoption is
gaining momentum currently.
Other Important News (Please
read!)
The New England Security Group will be meeting Thursday, Sep.
9th this month, Their topic this month is:
"Exposing the Insider
Threat:" Justin Bingham, CTO of
Intrusic will discuss how malicious hackers slip past perimeter defenses
to attack your internal networks and will profile the methods and
technologies that are used to exploit your network. The talk will
take attendees through the mission objective of a sophisticated malicious
hacker or cyberterrorist. The first step is to bypass the
perimeter, but with legitimate credentials. That’s where "island
hopping" comes in. Then, the next step is to establish residency in
the network. This is where a malicious hacker would try something like a
covert data channel such as a reverse HTTP tunnel. Then they conduct
reconnaissance using methods such as Layer 2 sniffing. The last step is
actual theft or compromise of data. See
http://www.neisg.org
for more information