Monthly Archives: July 2010

Austin Cloud Computing Users Group!

The first meeting of the Austin Cloud Computing Users Group just happened this Tuesday, and it was a good time!  This new effort is kindly hosted by Pervasive Software [map].  We had folks from all over attend – Pervasive (of

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Give Me An API Or Give Me Death

Catchy phrase courtesy #meatcloud…   But it’s very true.  I am continuously surprised by the chasm between the “old generation” of software that jealously demands its priests stay inside the temple, and the “new generation” that lets you do things via

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Advanced Persistent Threat, what is it and what can you do about it – TRISC 2010

Talk by James Ryan. An Advanced Persistent Threat is basically a massively coordinated long term hack attack, often accomplished by nation states or other “very large” organizations, like a business looking for intellectual property and information.  They try to avoid

Posted in Conferences, Security

Understanding and Preventing Computer Espionage – TRISC 2010

Talk given at TRISC 2010 by Kai Axford from Accretive Kai has delivered over 300 presentations and he is a manager at an IT solutions company.  Background at Microsoft in security. Kai starts with talking about noteworthy espionage events: Anna

Posted in Conferences, Security

Mac OSX Forensics (and security) – TRISC 2010

This talk was presented by Michael Harvey from Avansic. This has little to do with my day job, but I am big fan of Mac and have really enjoyed using it for the last several years both personally and professionally. 

Posted in Conferences, Security

Pen Testing, DNSSEC, Enterprise Security Assessments – TRISC Day 1 Summary

Yesterday’s TRISC event had some great talks. The morning talks were good and were higher-level keynotes that, to be honest, I didn’t take good notes on. The talk on legal implications for the IT industry was really interesting. I was

Posted in Conferences, Security

TRISC 2010 – Texas Regional Infrastucture Security Conference

TRISC starts today. Only one of the Agile Admins is up in Dallas today, and there are some pretty good speakers lined up today with some really interesting talks. I am looking forward to talks on DNSSEC, Pen Testing, and

Posted in Conferences, General, Security

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