Welcome to the SecureMaryland Podcast Episode 11 “Improving Defenses” recorded on Thursday, Jan 26th. SecureMaryland is part of The Cast Cast network. For show notes, visit www.thecastcast.com
A very big thanks to SmartLogic Solutions for making this possible. Visit www.smartlogicsolutions.com for more information.
Announcements:
If you haven’t seen it yet, head over to our website for show notes and additional security tips: www.SecureMaryland.org
Some Security Meet-ups in the Baltimore area:
CharmSec (meets the last Thursday of every month 7pm) – www.charmsec.org
The Ethical Hackers Club (TEHC) (first wed of the month – columbia MD) – http://www.meetup.com/ethical-hacker-club/
Our Hosts are:
Raymond Gabler: Overall tech geek with over 15 years of experience in the Information Security/Risk Threat management side of IT.
John Linkous: Vice President, Chief Security and Compliance Officer for eIQ Networks. John brings more than 15 years of technology management and consulting experience specializing in enterprise systems management, information security and regulatory compliance.
Shawn Grimes from Shawn’s Bits.com . I’ve been a Security Engineer for about the last 10 years and I can be found on twitter at @shawng
Brandon Dixon is from 9b+ and George Washington University. I work as a security researcher and incident responder. I can be found on twitter @9bplus and blog at blog.9bplus.com
Topics
A) Brief spot on unallocated – Raymond went there for Metasploit training and fire tornado. http://www.unallocatedspace.org/uas/
B) Brief chat on Star Wars the Old Republic – what they are doing to motivate a more secure customer experience. A game that gets security.
C). Improving Defensive Security – : i) Honey Potting – only good if you can learn from the attacks http://www.tracking-hackers.com/ ii) watching/monitoring egress traffic iii) using one of John’s phrases situational awareness – aware of what is going on around you (e.g. CERT Advisories). iv). I remember the “good ole days” when Secure Computing had the tag line Security that strikes back.