A Special Two-Fer for the New Year
Because I’m still in the holiday spirit (or maybe it was the spirits at lunch today), we’ve decided to announce our next two speakers. Let’s get right to it.
Although well known for his Tao of Security blog, Richard Bejtlich’s official working title is the Director of Incident Response for General Electric. He’s a highly sought-after speaker and the author of The Tao of Network Security Monitoring. And wouldn’t you know, he’s a fan of FreeBSD.
I’ve been using FreeBSD as my preferred platform for Network Security Monitoring (NSM) since 2000. In this presentation I’ll discuss my latest thinking on using FreeBSD to identify normal, suspicious, and malicious traffic in enterprise networks. FreeBSD is a powerful platform for network traffic inspection and log analysis, and I’ll share a few ways I use it in production environments.
I’ve crossed paths with Richard due to our proximity and interest in BSD User Groups. I heard him speak at ShmooCon 2006 and immediately appreciated his speaking style and expert knowledge in network security. I think attendees will walk away from his talk with a fresh perspective on security monitoring.
Next up, we have the RAID and storage guru of the OpenBSD project. Marco Peereboom introduced me to my first pint of Guinness, and for that I’ll be eternally grateful. I think it’s rather apropos that I announce his presentation on New Year’s Eve.
Tired of tape and their weaknesses? So am I! Epitome is the next generation backup mechanism. It is based on the idea of providing instant available backup data while removing duplicate files & blocks from backups (yes really!). It is a disk based WORM backup system.
This talk will go into the Epitome protocol and its application. The code is generic enough that it can address all 3 major (buzzword compliant) technologies known as: CAS, DEDUP & SIS.
Looking over his online man pages, the epitome suite specializes in data deduplication. This certainly has some practical uses, in spite of the ubiquity of multi-terabyte disk arrays.
Have you already registered? Don’t wait! It looks like we’re going to push forward the deadline for registration to January 31, in order to give us more lead time heading into the conference. We’ll broadcast this change soon, but don’t wait until it’s too late. Get your barcode today!
