NoVA Sec Meeting 1930 Thu 28 Aug 08

The next NoVA Sec meeting will take place 1930 Thursday 28 August 2008 at Command Information Labs:

13655 Dulles Technology Dr.
Suite 100
Herndon, VA 20171

The Labs are located at the north-west side of the building.

Here is a link to a map of the address.

One of more members of the Intrepidus Group (definitely Aaron Higbee, possibly Olympic hax0r Stryde Hax) will discuss multiple cool security issues.

NoVA Sec Meeting 1930 Thu 24 Jul 08

Thanks to NoVA Sec member initiative, the next NoVA Sec meeting will take place 1930 Thursday 24 July 2008 at Command Information Labs:

13655 Dulles Technology Dr.
Suite 100
Herndon, VA 20171

The Labs are located at the north-west side of the building.

Here is a link to a map of the address.

Ryan Trost will discuss Geospatial Intrusion Detection. Thanks to Ryan for volunteering to speak and Joe for hosting! I will unfortunately miss this meeting as I will be on a plane at this time.

Notes from 24 Apr 08 Meeting on TaoSecurity Blog

Everyone, I posted my NoVA Sec Meeting Memorial Analysis Notes on TaoSecurity Blog, if anyone is interested.

NoVA Sec Meeting 1930 Thu 12 Jun 08

The next NoVA Sec meeting will take place 1930 (7:30 pm) Thursday 12 June 2008 at this SAIC office:

6350 Walker Ln
Alexandria, VA 22310

Chris Gates from LearnSecurityOnline.com will present "New School Information Gathering."

NoVA Sec Meeting 1930 Thu 22 May

The next NoVA Sec meeting will take place 1930 (7:30 pm) Thursday 22 May 2008 at Fishnet Security:

13454 Sunrise Valley Dr. Suite 230
Herndon, VA 20171
703.793.1440

Joe Klein from Command Information will discuss IPv6 security.

Thank you to Fishnet and Joe for their help.

NoVA Sec Meeting 1930 Thursday 24 April 2008

The next NoVA Sec meeting will take place 1930 (7:30 pm) Thursday 24 April 2008 at Fishnet Security:

13454 Sunrise Valley Dr. Suite 230
Herndon, VA 20171
703.793.1440

Aaron Walters from Volatile Systems will discuss memory forensics.

Thank you to Fishnet and Aaron for their last-minute cooperation! I'm cross-posting this notice to get as many people notified as possible in the day before the meeting.

NoVA Sec Meeting 1730 Thu 27 Mar 08

Thanks to Wes Shield's initiative, the next NoVA Sec meeting will take place 1730 Thursday 27 March 2008 at infoLock Technologies:

infoLock Technologies
1901 North Fort Myer Drive
Suite 1016
Arlington, VA 22209

Thank you to Sean Steele and infoLock for hosting. Free parking is available after 5 pm at the lot shown in the map above. infoLock is 3/4 block from the Rosslyn Metro stop (Orange/Blue lines).

Our speaker will be Wes Shields, talking about ZFS:

ZFS, developed by Sun Microsystems, is a big shift in filesystem concepts and design. Without going into the underlying code we will discuss ZFS concepts, features, and abilities. If you plan on deploying a file server then this talk is for you, since ZFS very well may change your plans.

NoVA Sec Meeting 1930 Thu 28 Feb 08

The next NoVA Sec meeting will take place 1930 Thursday 28 February 2008 at Command Information: Labs

13655 Dulles Technology Dr.
Suite 100
Herndon, VA 20171

The Labs are located at the North West side of the building.

Here is a link to the address.

Trevor Hawthorn and Nate Miller from Stratum Security will talk about the trials and tribulations of starting a security consultancy. I may not be able to make this presentation (I want to!), so if I am not there Joe Klein (our host) will start the discussion. Thank you.

Great NoVA Sec Meeting

Thanks to Devin Paden for a great NoVA Sec talk on OLPC. Thanks to Joe Klein for taking the photo of relative sizes of computing gear in the room. Thanks also to Dowless and Associates for hosting us in their conference room. I'll post details on our next meeting shortly.

NoVA Sec Meeting 1930 Thu 31 Jan 08

I was determined to start 2008 right by having a NoVA Sec meeting in January. Thursday night is our last chance, but thanks to last-minute coordination with Dowless and Associates we have a meeting location.

The next NoVA Sec meeting will take place 1930 Thursday 31 January 2008 at Dowless and Associates:

13873 Park Center Rd.
Suite 450
Herndon, VA 20171

Devin will speak and demo his One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) box.

Our host is requesting a list of names of attendees, so please RSVP via email (taosecurity at gmail dot com) by end of day Wednesday 30 January 2008. Thank you.

Remember, there are no dues and no requirements for membership. We do leave certifications, FISMA, the certification and accreditation (C&A) process, and related items in the parking lot.

2008 Meeting Schedule

I'd like to regularly schedule NoVA Sec meetings in 2008 as the fourth Thursday of every month. That puts the meetings after the OWASP Washington VA meetings on the second Thursday and the ISSA-NoVA meetings on the third Thursday.

With that in mind, here is the proposed schedule for 2008.

• 24 Jan


• 28 Feb


• 27 Mar


• 24 Apr


• 22 May


• No Jun meeting: FIRST conference


• 24 Jul


• 28 Aug


• 25 Sep


• 23 Oct


• No Nov meeting: Thanksgiving


• No Dec meeting: Christmas

I am working on securing speakers for the other meetings now. If you have a speaker in mind (including yourself) please let me know via email to taosecurity at gmail dot com. I am also looking for generous corporate souls to host the meetings. Thank you.

Update: There are monthly Thursday conflicts with CapSec. Please see our mailing list for ongoing discussion.

NoVA Sec XSS Slides Posted

Thanks again to Andre Ludwig for his XSS Gone Wilde (.pdf) presentation.

Happy Birthday NoVA Sec

We're one year old today, because I created NoVA Sec on 21 July 2006. Our speaker for the 26 July meeting will be Andre Ludwig on "XSS Gone Wild." Next month Michael Smith will discuss life as a NOC ant at his MSSP. No date or location for that meeting has been set yet.

NoVA Sec Meeting 1900 Thursday 26 July 07

The next NoVA Sec meeting will take place 1900 (7 pm) Thursday 26 July 2007 at Fishnet Security:

13454 Sunrise Valley Dr. Suite 230
Herndon, VA 20171
703.793.1440



If we don't get a volunteer speaker before then I will present either Open Source Network Forensics or Traditional IDS Should Be Dead. I really just want to get us meeting again so NoVA Sec can rise from our summer slumber. Thanks to Fishnet for hosting!

April Meeting Doubtful

I don't think we will have an April meeting. I am not available Thursday 26 April (or anytime that week). The previous Thursday is ISSA NoVA night. This Thursday is short notice and I'm busy too.

If someone would like to organize a meeting and find a date, speaker and location, please do. Otherwise we can try again in May

NoVA Sec Meeting Friday 1230 23 March 2007

The next NoVA Sec meeting will take place 1230 Friday 23 March 2007 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC, the site for ShmooCon 2007. Registration opens at 1300 Friday, with the conference starting at 1530. Our guest speaker will be Chris Lee, who has numerous cool projects and is a key member of the Honeynet Project.

We will probably not be meeting in a specific room and we very probably will not have a projector. I'd like this to be a meet-for-lunch meeting, possibly using the tables next to the deli for our meeting location. I suggest bringing a laptop in the event Chris has any slides he wants us to ponder on our laptops. Thank you to Chris for driving up from Georgia for ShmooCon and speaking to us.

Honeynet Alliance Membership

At our last meeting I raised the possibility of NoVA Sec operating a honeynet using the Getronics Red Siren IP and hardware range. After speaking with members of the Honeynet Project, they suggested we volunteer NoVA Sec as a member of the Honeynet Research Alliance. Please read the Honeynet Research Alliance Charter for information on the requirements. I'd like to put this to a vote at our next meeting, or at least solicit your inputs here and on our mailing list. Please let me know if you'd like NoVA Sec to become a Honeynet Research Alliance member. Basically, they trade trust and support in exchange for our help. I think it's a good idea. Thank you.

NoVA Sec Meeting 1900 Thursday 22 Feb 07

The next NoVA Sec meeting will take place 1900 (7 pm) Thursday 22 February 2007 at Fishnet Security:

13454 Sunrise Valley Dr. Suite 230
Herndon, VA 20171
703.793.1440



Scott Musman from Augmented Systems will be our guest speaker. He will discuss using autonomic systems for improved intrusion detection.

In the event that I (Richard) cannot make the meeting due to consulting out of town, Keith McCammon has agreed to be Scott's host Thursday evening. Thanks Keith!

Thoughts on March Meeting at ShmooCon

ShmooCon starts Friday 23 March at 3 pm at the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel near the Woodley Park/Zoo Metro stop. That first day of talks ends at 7 pm. I have recruited a special guest speaker, Chris Lee, from the Honeynet Project, as a guest speaker "near" ShmooCon.

I suggest we hold our March NoVA Sec meeting at ShmooCon at 1:30 pm Friday 23 March. We can find a suitable open space, grab it, and chat. Chris can chat without slides.

What do you think?

NoVA Sec Meeting 1900 Mon 29 Jan 07 at Getronics

The next NoVA Sec meeting will take place 1900 (7 pm) Monday 29 January 2007 at Getronics Red Siren. Wesley Shields will discuss FreeBSD jails.