Northeast Ohio Information Security Forum

We hold monthly meetings on the 3rd Wednesday of each month with starting time of 6:30pm in the greater Cleveland/Akron area. Most meetings take place in the Park Plaza Center 1 building located at 6100 Oak Tree Blvd, off Rockside Road, Independence, Ohio. Google Maps link. A free social gathering with food and drink starts at 6:00 PM courtesy of our meeting sponsors.

Watch this page for meeting details every month. If you wish to be added to the membership mailing list and receive meeting notices, send an email to membership(at)neoisf.org.

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT:

Our next meeting is WEDNESDAY May 19th, 2010
Pizza and networking start at 6:00 PM
Talks start at 6:30 PM
Location: Park Center Plaza #1, 6100 Oak Tree Blvd,
off Rockside Road, Independence, Ohio
Open to everyone and free as always!

Talks:

Rafal Los – Into the Rabbit Hole: Execution Flow-Based Web Application Testing
Since the caveman first fashioned a spear humans have been using tools to make them more efficient and effective. Unfortunately, today’s analysts often misunderstand the role tools play in testing web applications. While tools can be quite good at mapping a web application’s attack surface there is still much human analysis that must be done to find the elusive defects that lie just below the surface. That human analysis is daunting and irregular … until now. The answer is an execution-flow-based approach to application security testing. By first understanding application logic and execution flow it is possible to completely map a web application’s attack surface, and therefore fully test the application. Along the way, we will cover the principles of data-flow analysis, application process mapping and building execution-flow diagrams (EFDs), which together form a complete picture of the web application and allow an analyst to uncover potentially critical defects.

Speaker Bio
Senior Security Specialist and Web Application Security evangelist with Hewlett-Packard’s Application Security Center (ASC), Rafal Los has more than thirteen years of experience in network and system design, security policy and process design, risk analysis, penetration testing, and consulting. For the past eight years, he has focused on information security and risk management, leading security architecture teams, and managing successful enterprise security programs for General Electric and other Fortune 100 companies, as well as SMB enterprises. Previously, Rafal spent three years in-house with GE Consumer Finance, leading its web application security programs.

Chris Clymer – A Survey of Security Certifications:  Which Regex Should You Match?
The IT industry has long been a maze of myriad technology certifications, and the security industry is no different.  CISSP, CISA, CEH, GCIH, OSCP…you’ve seen the letters, and probably even have a few on your business card.  In this presentation, Chris will breakdown popular security certifications, categorizing them by both educational and resume-building value.

Speaker Bio
Chris Clymer is a senior security consultant for a Fortune 500 financial services institution, a co-host of the Security Justice podcast, and currently sits on the NEOISF board.  He’s been working hard on his cert regex in recent years, current patterns matched include: CISSP, CISA, GPEN, and GWAPT.

This month’s room sponsor is

• HurricaneLabs

This month’s food sponsor is

• HP

Please visit our sponsors.

No registration needed and open to everyone – just show up. Hope to see you there…and bring a friend!