Secure Systems Administration, through attacking yourself
Leeland Artra
Topic: Security
Audience: All audiences
Description:
The talk provides an introduction to hacking. The basic concepts and attacks are described. As well as a real attack is walked through in detail demonstrating how a Hacker can go from knowing nothing about a site to having access.
This is a two part set each part taking between 3 to 6 hours depending on the level of detail.
Part one is about thinking like a hacker/cracker and understanding how to put yourself into that mind set to see what your networks and software looks like to them. Part one also touches on the initial stages of defense and tracking.
Part two goes into more details on the nuts and bolts of attacking and defending systems and software.
Prerequisites:
Basic Systems Adminstration and UNIX usage knowledge.
History:
BOEING Corp 1996, 1997, 2000;
Seattle SAGE Group 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003;
ACM 1999, 2000;
Posted: Oct 4, 2006 03:30:46 PM; Last change: Oct 4, 2006 03:32:57 PM
The Speaker: Leeland Artra
Contact Organization: Nintendo of America
Location: Seattle, Washington
Phone: (206)380-2036
Email: lartra@GreyDragon.COM
Will travel: Anywhere
Payment required: All offers
Bio:
Leeland is a regularly invited speaker for SANS, SAGE and USENIX on database administration and security topics, systems & network security, hacking, programming for SAs, Java programming, version control systems and systems administration. He has personally designed and implemented a number of new computer technologies. Currently Leeland's efforts are on creating a new technologies to store, access, mine, and analyze information to improve Nintendo of America's operations and services. Leeland Artra started and sold a DNS and web hosting provider company that had grown to over 5000 clients. In the late 1990s he was the Director of Computer Systems Technology for the Cell System Initiative (CSI) at the University of Washington. CSI was a combined biological research program and information systems research & development program focused on bringing the power and technologies available in today's computer industry to the biology research laboratory environment. The primary goal of the information systems research component of CSI is to develop an optimal computing environment for collaborating, distributed groups of biologists. Prior to that Leeland was the Senior Researcher for the Cellworks Project at the University of Washington (CWP). The CWP had nearly the same goals as CSI and at CWP Leeland was the inventor of numerous database Java technologies. One of which was the Moulage System, which was highly recognized as an important research step in data mining and sharing. The Moulage System was nominated by Oracle for the Computer World Smithsonian 1998 award and became one of the finalists for that award. Prior to that Leeland designed and built the data center for the ITER project. Leeland was also named an Oracle Futures Development Partner for Oracle version 8.
Posted: Oct 4, 2006 03:32:49 PM; Last change: Oct 4, 2006 03:32:57 PM
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