Security Management Strategies for the CIO
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SEPTEMBER
Access Intelligence Seminar Series
www.events.techtarget.com/ai
September 19, 21, 26
Hosted by Information Security
This free one-day seminar delivers
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tips, tactics and techniques to get the most out of your identity and access management initiatives. Events will be held Sept. 19 in Washington, D.C.; Sept. 21 in Dallas, Texas; and Sept. 26 in New York City.
IT Security World Conference & Expo 2006
www.misti.com
September 25-27
San Francisco, CA
MIS Training Institute's annual conference offers sessions on managing risk and technology. Johnny Long will tackle black hat myths, and CA chief security strategist Ron Moritz will moderate a panel of white hats. The CISO Summit returns, kicking off the event.
OCTOBER
SANS Network Security
www.sans.org
October 1–9
Las Vegas, NV
The 12th annual conference features 20 training courses with instructors Eric Cole, Stephen Northcutt, Ed Skoudis and Mike Poor, among others. Topics include wireless networks, hacker techniques, intrusion detection, and securing Windows and Unix. GSE, GSM, GSC certification exams will be offered.
Information Security Decisions
www.infosecurityconference.com
October 18–20
Chicago, IL
Hosted by Information Security
Information Security Decisions arms you with the expert advice it takes to tackle today's mission-critical security objectives, and with the essential strategies required to gain control over today's ever-changing corporate environment. Speakers include Joel Snyder and AT&T's Ed Amoroso.
CCS 2006
www.acm.org/sigs/sigsac/ccs/CCS2006/
October 30–November 3
Alexandria, VA
The 13th annual ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security features workshops on privacy, digital rights management, storage security, visualization, secure Web services and more. The keynote speaker is Peter G. Neumann, principal scientist at SRI's Computer Science Lab.
Remember When...
Likely to go down as one of the worst months ever for its worm outbreaks, August 2003 saw the release of Sobig-F and Mimail-A, mass mailers that crippled email inboxes; Blaster, the network worm that exploited a critical vulnerability in Windows Remote Procedure Call; and Nachi, which, in trying to fix the RPC bug, caused more problems than it was worth.
This was first published in August 2006
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