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A bi-weekly publication from the ISSA International Board

January 19, 2007

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The Secure IT 2007 conference

Presented by the California State University system, the California Community Colleges and the Foundation for California Community Colleges. Come to the Secure IT 2007 conference in Sacramento, March 27-29, to learn from experts and colleagues the latest in technology and network security. The 2007 conference will focus on: law, policy and compliance, network control, authentication and encryption, new trends in curriculum development, and the emerging threat—vulnerabilities in web applications. To learn more about the conference, click here.

In this Issue

  1. Next ISSA CISO Forum in Las Vegas, March 29-30
  2. SecurityFocus: Vulnerability tallies surged in 2006
  3. Members Only Feature: Print your own Membership Card
  4. ISSA's Latest Webcast: What is Deep Network Forensics?

Next ISSA CISO Forum in Las Vegas, March 29-30

Enabling Your Business - Think Strategically, Act Tactically. This is the theme of the next ISSA CISO Executive Membership Forum, to be held in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand, March 29-30. This forum will focus on the steps CISOs can take today to better integrate with business initiatives and create a better long term environment for information security. If you or your boss are interested in attending, please click here.

SecurityFocus: Vulnerability tallies surged in 2006

Flaws in Web applications boosted the bug counts for 2006 by more than a third over the previous year, according to data obtained by SecurityFocus from the four major vulnerability databases. Click here to read the full article.

Members Only Feature: Print your own Membership Card

In response to member feedback, we have developed a new feature, allowing members to download and print their membership card on demand. Now, if your card gets lost, or you need to show proof of membership for a chapter meeting or any other industry event, your membership card is readily available. Just go online, click, print and laminate. To check out this new feature, go to the members only section.

ISSA's Latest Webcast: What is Deep Network Forensics?

Sponsored by NIKSUN

There are many tools in the arsenal of security investigators that provide well-known and established practices. Such tools tend to provide analyses that are limited to static points in time and crafty attackers know methods for hiding their tracks to hinder investigations. In this talk we present the case for deep network forensics (DNF)-- the process of capturing all network activity for post-event analysis. DNF provides a complementary technology in the arsenal of incident handlers that may prove indispensible for tracking network based attacks and crimes. With DNF the dynamic nature of incidents can be tracked and analyzed. In this presentation the need for DNF is established and the basic and advanced requirements for DNF are laid out. We also present some case studies where the application of DNF proved essential to resolving the investigations. Register for the webcast.