Greater Augusta ISSA 2010 Q4 Public Meeting: Doug Burks presents "Security Onion: Intrusion Detection for your Network in Minutes"

Please join us at the Greater Augusta ISSA Q4 meeting on Thursday, October 28. This is our last public meeting of 2010! I will be presenting "Security Onion: Intrusion Detection for your Network in Minutes". Security Onion is a project that I've been working on for the past few years. Its goal is to provide a pre-configured Intrusion Detection environment that can be downloaded for free and put to use in your network in less than an hour. It's based on Xubuntu 10.04 and contains Snort, Suricata, Sguil, Xplico, Vortex IDS, Bro IDS, Chaosreader, driftnet, hping3, scapy, Wireshark, and many other tools. Come see what Security Onion can do for you!

What: The Greater Augusta ISSA 2010 Q4 Public meeting: Doug Burks presents "Security Onion: Intrusion Detection for your Network in Minutes"
How: This is a FREE public meeting. Please confirm your reservation by sending an email to reservations@augusta.issa.org
When: Thursday October 28 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Where:
University Hall room 242
Augusta State University
2500 Walton Way
Augusta, GA 30904
http://www.aug.edu/public_relations/pr_map_campus.htm

On the morning of the presentation, don't forget to swing by the ASU Public Safety office to get a visitor pass for the parking lot. The Public Safety office is in the back corner of the campus. You can see it at the bottom-left of this map:
http://www.aug.edu/public_relations/asumap/images/PARKINGMAP1008PR.jpg

Speaker Bio
Doug Burks has over 10 years experience in Information Security. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and also holds the GSE, GPEN, GCIA Gold, GSEC, and CISSP certifications. Doug has worked in many organizations over the years, including government facilities, chemical plants, and the media industry. He excels at providing secure solutions for any environment using a budget of any size. Doug is the author of Security Onion Live (http://code.google.com/p/security-onion/ ), a free bootable DVD that contains many security tools. You can read more about Doug by visiting his blog athttp://securityonion.blogspot.com/.

SANS 560 Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking in Augusta starts 8/17

I will be mentoring SANS 560 Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking in Augusta starting Tuesday, August 17. Typical SANS Mentor sessions are one night a week for 10 weeks, but this class will meet twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays), so we'll complete the course in only 5 weeks.

Who should take this course?

• Do you perform penetration testing?
• Do you procure penetration testing?
• Do you manage penetration testers?
• Did you take SANS 504 and really enjoy the Hacker Techniques portion?
• Do you want to know more about how the bad guys perform recon, scan for vulnerabilities, perform exploitation, gain command execution, and then pivot further into the target environment?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you need this class!

For more information about the course, please see:

http://www.sans.org/mentor/details.php?nid=22318

A 25% discount is available for ISSA members! Even if you're not currently an ISSA member, you can join today for only $120 to obtain the 25% discount (which will save you over $700).

To join the ISSA and/or register for SANS 560, please contact me.

Reminder about SANS 503 training here in Augusta

We have less than 2 weeks to go before the January 20 deadline for the best deal on SANS 503 Intrusion Detection training here in Augusta! If you're not an ISSA member already, you can join today (only $120.00) and take advantage of the 40% discount for ISSA members. ISSA Members who wish to register for the class should contact me or one of the other chapter leaders for the Discount Registration code.

For further information, please see:
http://www.sans.org/mentor/details.php?nid=15354