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Infosec South Africa (ISSA) 2009

Barry Irwin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:50:21 +0000

As previously mentioned, I’ll be attending t the 8th Annual ISSA Conference Monday, 6 to Wednesday, 8 July 2009, along with some of my postgraduate students

While a relatively small, conference, this year’s programme has a nice blend of topics being covered, and in many ways has refocused on being a more Academic and research centered conference, with much of the industry hype and attendees having migrated to the ITWeb Security Summit.

The Security and Networks Research Group (SNRG) will be presenting five papers:

Investigating the effect of Genetic Algorithms on filter optimisation within fast packet classifiers. (Alastair Nottingham)
An examination of the Generic Exploit Prevention Mechanisms on Apple’s Leopard Operating System. (Haroon Meer)
Automated Firewall Rule Set Generation Through Passive Traffic Inspection. (Georg-Christian Pranschke)
A Framework for the Rapid Development of Anomaly Detection Algorithms in Network Intrusion Detection Systems. (Richard Barnett)
Management, Processing and Analysis of Cryptographic Network Protocols (Bradley Cowie) (Work in progress stream)

I’ll post appropriate links to the PDF versions once the conference is over.

Again the conference is being held at the School of Tourism & Hospitality (STH) University of Johannesburg, which is on Bunting Road, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, which can be found here

CFP: Information Security for South Africa 2009

Barry Irwin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:01:16 +0000

The Second call for papers ISSA2009, Information Security for South Africa, 6 – 8 July 2009 has been released.

http://www.infosecsa.co.za

Due dates:

Abstract submission: 23 March 2009 (1 page)
Notification of abstract acceptance: 31 March 2009
Full papers submission for review: 18 April 2009
Notification of acceptance: 26 May 2009
Submission of final camera-ready papers: 6 June 2009

Choosing your Computer Security Conference

Barry Irwin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:28:10 +0000

While trawling through references, and chasing down files as part of my final PhD push, I came across a resource compiled by Guofei Gu at Texas A&M. He has provided a Computer Security Conference Ranking and Statistic page. While by his own admission it is somewhat subjective, he makes use of some interesting metrics.

If you ahve novel research and are looking to get the best bang for yourl buck, this list can help you select the right forum to present in. Particularly interesting is the statistics list showing acceptance rates for some of the major conferences over the last few years.

Blackhat 2008 Slides

Barry Irwin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:49:39 +0000

Michael Boman has made available the slidepack for Blackhat 2008. There are many blackhats as such but THE Blackhat is Blackhat USA held in Vegas in early in August each year. While the official audio and video will be another couple of months off, the slides should keep people interested. BH Europe also has material already available on the archive

Blackat Media’s decision to open up their archives is to be commended. If I recall correctly, this content has also been available on iTunes fro a while under podcasts.

Defcon16 Toolsets

Barry Irwin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:29:14 +0000

With the 16^th incarnation of Defcon having come and gone last week, a number of people have put together a nice list of the various tools released. The ZDnet’s Rob Fuller has done all the hard work of tracking down the various tools and their websites in his article - entitled “ DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released
“seems to be the most definitive. Another (updated) list is on Rob’s personal site in which he includes some other items like Packet-O-Matic, PE-Scambler andVMware Pen-Testing Framework, alng with a link to the ISO.

Of all the tools release its DAVIX, that makes me happiest, other than it being a relaly slick Compilation of VizSec tools, it also features InetVis, which is a part of the postgraduate research by one of my students (Jean-Pierre van Riel), which I previously posted about.

iKat is the other tool that tickles my fancy.

There are some interesting setf odf Defcon Photos floating around such as these by sits, who has also made available a zip of the of the Defcon 16 CD contents.An 732MB ISO version is also available that at least has checksums.

I see some fun times ahead!

IFIP 2009 Conference CFP

Barry Irwin — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:18:31 +0000

The 24th IFIP International Information Security Conference, has just released its call for papers for the 2009 edidtion to be held in Cyprus May 18-20 next year. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published by Springer. Accepted papers must follow Springer’s guidelines for the IFIP Series, available at www.springer.com/series/6102

Important dates
Submission of papers: October 20, 2008
Notification to authors: December 20, 2008
Camera-ready copies: January 15, 2009