AusCERT Asia Pacific
Information Technology Security Conference 2004
Computer Security: Are we there yet?

23rd May 2004 - 27th May 2004


Programme Schedule as at 21st May 2004


Day Zero: Sunday, 23rd May 2004

From 1300

Golf sponsored by IBM Tivoli Software - Please note that the Golf afternoon is now full.
IBM logo

1330 - 2100

Conference registration

1400 - 1600

Free Workshop

So you want to establish a CSIRT; a Dutch perspective on the do's and don'ts

Hedy van der Ende, General Manager, GOVCERT.NL
Henk Bronk, Manager Technical Team, GOVCERT.NL

1400 - 1720

Tutorial

Deploying Remote-Access IPSec VPNs

Tony Saunders, Cisco Systems

(see below for details)

1900 - 2100

Welcome Reception sponsored by Check Point Software Technologies
  Checkpoint logo


Day One: Monday, 24th May 2004 (Morning)

0800 - 1730

Registration desk open

0800 - 0830

Coffee sponsored by RSA Security   RSA Security logo

0830 - 0835

Welcome
Nick Tate, Director, AusCERT
Graham Ingram, General Manager, AusCERT

0835 - 0925

Keynote address

Forty years of Internet Arms Races

Bill Cheswick, Lumeta

0925 - 1005

Protecting NII

Larry Hale, Deputy Director of the Department of Homeland Security, National Cyber Security Division, Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)

1005 - 1035

2004 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey Results

Kathryn Kerr, Analysis and Assessments Manager, AusCERT
Alastair MacGibbon, Director of the Australian High Tech Crime Centre

1035 - 1105

Morning Tea sponsored by VASCO Data Security Australia   Vasco logo

 

Technical
Stream

Business
Stream

Sponsors
Stream

Sponsors
Stream

1105 - 1145

Why isn't the Internet secure yet, dammit

Peter Gutmann, Researcher, Auckland University

Malicious Code Attacks in the 21st Century

Vincent Weafer, Senior Director of Development Symantec Security Response

Juniper Secure Access products - the new generation of remote access

Matthew Miller, Juniper Networks

Juniper logo

Getting value from Vulnerability Assessment and keeping it

Neal Wise, Principal Consultant, Dimension Data

Dimension Data

1145 - 1230

Passive Network Discovery Systems & Asset-centric Security

Marty Roesch, Founder and CTO, Sourcefire

Is a 21st Century Australia Card a recipe for increased Identity Fraud?

Malcolm Crompton, Former Federal Privacy Commissioner

The 3D Threat: How the rules have changed

Scott Ferguson, Check Point Software Technologies

Checkpoint logo

Preventative security measures: balancing business needs with security & investment

Wayne Weisse, Network Associates

Network Associates logo

1235 - 1315

Honeynets and Honeypots: Companion technology for detection and response

Cristine Hoepers, Senior Security Analyst, NIC BR Security Office (NBSO), Brazilian Computer Emergency Response Team

Security Breaches: Who is responsible

Hamish Fraser, Lawyer, Optus

The content report: an in-depth look into email management practices

Lindsay Durbin, Clearswift Asia Pacific

Clearswift logo

Securing your environment with the IBM Tivoli Identity Management portfolio

Paul Ashley, IBM Software Group, Australia

IBM logo

1315 - 1430

Lunch sponsored by Trend Micro
   Trendmicro logo


Day One: Monday, 24th May 2004 (Afternoon)

1430 - 1510

Stopping MalWare: Has the battlefield changed?

Alex Shipp, Senior Anti Virus Technologist, MessageLabs

Security Response at Microsoft: Tales from the Trenches

Iain Mulholland, Manager, Microsoft Security Response Center

Security Management - corporate accountability and market maturity affecting incident and vulnerability management programs

Chris Pick, Vice-President Security Management, NetIQ

NetIQ logo

SPAM - a threat to security

Andrew Gordon, Brightmail

Brightmail logo

1515 - 1555

Highly Distributed Intrusion Detection Systems and Trust Relationships

Raven Alder, True North Solutions

Building a Computer Forensics Program in a Global Company

Kathy Fithen, Manager of the KO-CIRT and Computer Forensics team at The Coca-Cola Company

Beyond the signature files

Chris Poulos, Trend Micro

Trend Micro logo

Email security: are we there yet?

Ned Engelke, IronPort Systems

IronPort Systems logo

1555 - 1625

Afternoon Tea sponsored by Proofpoint with Unixpac
   Proofpoint logo    Unixpac logo

1625 - 1705

The Internet Storm Center in Korea (Internet Forecasting by Monitoring Project)

Arnold Yoon, KRCERT/CC

Biometric *In*security

Roger Clarke, Consultant

High speed security - perimeter security in the gigabit age

Leigh Costin, Fortinet Inc

Fortinet logo

New menaces, new defences - a vendor perspective

Paul A. Henry, CyberGuard Corp

Cyberguard logo

1710 - 1750

Wireless Security - Don't Bet the Farm Just Yet

Stephen Glass, IBM Tivoli/Griffith University

Security Fatigue: Threatening the Culture of Security

Nick Ellsmore, Director and Principal Consultant of SIFT Pty Ltd

International trends in IT security

Glen Noble, Macquarie Corporate
James B. Southworth, Secure Pathways

Macquarie Corporate logo

Conditioning More Effective Incident Response in the Enterprise

Kim Valois, CSC Australia

CSC logo

1750 - 1800

Coffee Break sponsored by b-sec    b-sec logo

 

BOF Sessions

1805 - 1845

AusCERT member's only briefings

AusCERT

The security challenges facing Small to Medium Enterprises(SMEs) and how security should be approached in their environment.

ISIG

From 1900

Sponsors Cocktail Party

 


Day Two: Tuesday, 25th May 2004 (Morning)

0730 - 1730

Registration desk open

0730 - 0800

Coffee sponsored by Tripwire with Unixpac   Tripwire logo    Unixpac logo

0800 - 0805

Welcome
Graham Ingram, General Manager, AusCERT

0805 - 0825

E-Security Policy Developments in Australia

Keith Besgrove, Chief General Manager, Regulation and Analysis, NOIE

0825 - 0915

Keynote address

The Internet: What we'd fix if we thought it was broken

Fred Baker, Cisco Fellow, Cisco Systems

0915 - 0955

Legal Liability and Security Incident Investigation

Jennifer Stisa Granick, Director of the Center for Internet and Society (CIS), Stanford Law School

0955 - 1045

Debate sponsored by NetIQ   NetIQ logo

Who are we kidding? Too many vulnerability disclosures are bad for security.

Facilitator: Chris Pick, Vice-President Security Management, NetIQ

Debaters: Hamish Fraser, Lawyer, Optus; Mark McPherson, Training and Education Manager, AusCERT; Jennifer Stisa Granick, Director of the Center for Internet and Society (CIS), Stanford Law School; Karl Hanmore, Bank of Queensland; Marty Roesch, Founder and CTO, Sourcefire; Greg Shipley, CTO, Neohapsis; 

1045 - 1115

Morning Tea sponsored by Vectra Corporation Limited   Vectracorp logo

 

Technical
Stream

Business
Stream

Sponsors
Stream

Sponsors
Stream

1115 - 1155

Log Analysis - How to Be In The Know

Tim Daly, Atos Origin

Exploring Grand Challenges in Trustworthy Computing

Eugene Spafford, Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University

IT Security at Microsoft Corporation

Greg Galford, Microsoft

Microsoft logo

Managed security services

Lou Talevski, Symantec

Symantec logo

1200 - 1240

VoIP security

Ofir Arkin, Sys-Security Group

Cyber Threats to Critical Information Infrastructure: Local Case Studies

Zahri Hj Yunos, National ICT Security and Emergency Response Centre (NISER)

Building the self-defending network

Sam Trad, Cisco Systems Australia

Cisco logo

Connectivity without Compromise

Ken Long, Tenix Datagate

Tenix logo

1240 - 1400

Lunch sponsored by Sun Microsystems
    Sun Microsystems logo


Day Two: Tuesday, 25th May 2004 (Afternoon)

 

Technical
Stream

Business
Stream

Sponsors
Stream

Sponsors
Stream

1400 - 1440

Vulnerability research methodology

Greg Shipley, CTO, Neohapsis

Corporate Security: A VeriSign Perspective

Ken Silva, Vice President, Networking and Information Security, Verisign

Who's watching the door?

Daniel Zatz, Computer Associates

Computer Associates logo

Network identity infrastructures

Darren Fowler, Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems logo

1445 - 1525

A scalable virus scanning architecture for service provider email gateways

Amar Shrestha, Telstra Corporation Ltd

Establishing security as a part of the business

John Geurts, General Manager, Group Security, Commonwealth Bank

On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungs problem (or why anti-virus and anti-spam is hard)

Paul Ducklin, Sophos

Sophos logo

The Shrinking Perimeter: The Case for Data-Level Risk Management

Glenn Johnson, Senior IT Security and Management Consultant, Guardian Tech.

Guardian Tech logo

1525 - 1555

Afternoon Tea sponsored by MessageLabs   Message Labs logo

1555 - 1635

Network Forensics - Concepts and Tools

Bruce Talbot, CA

AS 13335, The New Standard for IT Security?

Rob Siganto, Bridge Point Communications

The future of the datacenter: utility computing, management technologies and information security implications

Marcio Saito, Cyclades

Cyclades logo

We still need to drain the swamp

Andrew Walls, Betrusted

Betrusted logo

1640 - 1720

Securing passwords over the wire; Implementing proxy digest authentication

Sean Burford, The University of Adelaide

Comparing Handheld Operating System Security

Eric Chien, Senior Software Engineer Symantec

Centrally managed endpoint security from Zone Labs

Jonathan Mabie, Zone Labs

Zone Labs logo

No presentation scheduled

1720 - 1730

Coffee Break sponsored VeriSign Australia   VeriSign Australia logo

1730 - 1810

BOF Sessions

ISSPCS certification exam preview forum

Test your IT Security Knowledge and enjoy wine and cheese with:

Nick Tate, Director, AusCERT
John P Hopkinson, President ISSEA
Mark McPherson, Training and Education Manager, AusCERT
Scott Sinclair, The University of Queensland

From 1830

Board Buses for Gala Dinner

 

Gala Dinner sponsored by Microsoft Corporation   Microsoft logo

 


Day Three: Wednesday, 26th May 2004 (Morning)

0800 - 1630

Registration desk open

0805 - 0835

Coffee sponsored by Ceanet Pty Ltd   Ceanet logo

0835 - 0840

Welcome
Graham Ingram, General Manager, AusCERT

0840 - 0900

Fighting High Tech Crime

Mick Deats, Detective Superintendent, Deputy Head, NHTCU

0900 - 0950

Keynote address

Clarice Meets The Matrix: The Science of Profiling Takes a Whole New Direction

Max Kilger, Psychologist, Honeynet Project

0950 - 1030

Honeynets: Detecting Insider Threats

Kirby Kuehl, Honeynet Project

1035 - 1105

Morning Tea sponsored by Eracom Technologies   Eracom logo

 

Technical
Stream

Business
Stream

Sponsors
Stream

R&D
Stream

1105 - 1145

Advances in security scanning

Renaud Deraison, Director of Research, Tenable Network Security

New Spam laws: risks and compliance issues?

David Vaile, Executive director, Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, University of NSW

No presentation scheduled

Honeypot-based Forensics

Fabien Pouget, Eurecom, France

Trustworthy Routing with the TORA Protocol

Asad Pirzada, UWA, Australia

1150 - 1230

Are you spamming today?

Matthew Sullivan, The University of Queensland

The Cost of Risk - Passing it back to the business

Karl Hanmore, Bank of Queensland

Next generation high performance network security architectures

Matt Barrie, Sensory Networks

Sensory Networks logo

Understanding Attacks via Distributed IDS

Till Dorges, Presecure Consulting, Germany

Network-based Buffer Overflow Detection by Exploit Code Analysis

Stig Andersson, QUT, Australia

1230 - 1350

Lunch sponsored by Brightmail
  Brightmail logo


Day Three: Wednesday, 26th May 2004 (Afternoon)

 

Technical
Stream

Business
Stream

Sponsors
Stream

R&D
Stream

1350 - 1430

Email Filtering and Mitigating Circumvention Techniques

Dr Michael Cohen, Senior Technical Adviser
Steven McLeod, Technical Adviser

Defence Signals Directorate (DSD)

It's 11 o'clock - Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?

Marcus Sachs, Director of the Internet Storm Center, SANS

No presentation scheduled

A Privacy Logging and Reporting Framework

Paul Ashley, IBM Software Group, Australia

Legal and Regulatory Issues of Implementation of Electronic Signatures

Raj Gururajan, USQ, Australia

1435 - 1515

Microsoft Patch Analysis

Russ Cooper, Surgeon General, TruSecure Corporation; Founder and Moderator of NTBugtraq

SCADA Systems Security - Why the IT Security approach might fail!

Andreas Tilch, ISIG
Mark Ames, ISIG

No presentation scheduled

A Protocol for Secrecy and Authentication within Proxy-based SPKI/SDSI Mobile Networks

Craig Pearce, RMIT, Australia

Protecting Stateful Security Policies Using One-Way Functions

Hakan Kvarnstrom, TeliaSonera, Sweden

1520 - 1530

Afternoon Tea sponsored by nCipher Australia   nCipher logo

1530 - 1620

Personal and Corporate Identity Theft: How to Spot and Avoid Today's Common Techniques of Elicitation and Social Engineering?

Chris Pick, Vice-President Security Management, NetIQ

1620 - 1640

Lessons Learnt
Conference Close

1645 - 1950

Tutorials 2 and 3
from 1645 to 1950
(see below for details)

 


Tutorials

Day Zero: Sunday, 23rd May 2004

1330 - 1400

Registration & Coffee

1400 - 1530

Tutorial 1
Deploying Remote-Access IPSec VPNs

Tony Saunders, Cisco Systems

1530 - 1550

Afternoon Tea sponsored by TippingPoint with Unixpac
  TippingPoint logo   Unixpac logo

1550 - 1720

Tutorial 1 (cont.)
Deploying Remote-Access IPSec VPNs

Tony Saunders, Cisco Systems

 

Day Three: Wednesday, 26th May 2004

1645 - 1800

Tutorial 2
Information System Threat & Risk Assessment (ISTRA) - the Vital Precursor to Establishing an Appropriate Security Strategy

Sue Dudley, Victoria Police

(Introductory)

Tutorial 3
Securing your Windows Network (Security advice from the front-line)

Robert Hensing, PSS Security Incident Response Specialist, Microsoft

1800 - 1820

Coffee Break sponsored by Atos Origin   Atos Origin logo

1820 - 1950

Tutorial 2 (cont.)
Information System Threat & Risk Assessment (ISTRA) - the Vital Precursor to Establishing an Appropriate Security Strategy

Sue Dudley, Victoria Police

(Introductory)

Tutorial 3 (cont.)
Securing your Windows Network (Security advice from the front-line)

Robert Hensing, PSS Security Incident Response Specialist, Microsoft

 


Day Four: Thursday, 27th May 2004 (Morning)

0830 - 0900

Registration & Coffee sponsored by EWA-Australia   EWA Australia logo

0900 - 1030

Tutorial 4
Wireless Hacking: How to do it and how to avoid it happening to you

Phillip Yialeloglou, Senior Systems Engineer Cisco Systems Australia

Tutorial 5
Working with Snort

Marty Roesch, Founder and CTO, Sourcefire

Tutorial 6
Patch Warfare - Losing the battle? How to win the war . . .

Robert Hensing, PSS Security Incident Response Specialist, Microsoft

Tutorial 7
Applied Information Security Risk Assessment

Gary Gaskell, Infosec Services Pty Ltd
Mark Ames, ICT Risk Pty Ltd

(Advanced)

1035 - 1055

Morning Tea sponsored by Deloitte   Deloitte logo

1100 - 1230

Tutorial 4 (cont.)
Wireless Hacking: How to do it and how to avoid it happening to you

Phillip Yialeloglou, Senior Systems Engineer Cisco Systems Australia

Tutorial 5 (cont.)
Working with Snort

Marty Roesch, Founder and CTO, Sourcefire

Tutorial 6 (cont.)
Enterprise Incident Response Planning

Robert Hensing, PSS Security Incident Response Specialist, Microsoft

Tutorial 7 (cont.)
Applied Information Security Risk Assessment

Gary Gaskell, Infosec Services Pty Ltd
Mark Ames, ICT Risk Pty Ltd

(Advanced)

1235 - 1335

Lunch sponsored by Macquarie Corporate
  Macquarie Corporate Telecommunications logo


Day Four: Thursday, 27th May 2004 (Afternoon)

1340 - 1510

Tutorial 8
Incident Response and Intrusion Analysis - Intermediate Level

Dr Michael Cohen, Senior Technical Adviser
Scott MacLeod, Leader
Steven McLeod, Technical Adviser
David Collett, Technical Computer Security Analyst
Steven Stroud, Manager, Technical Services

Defence Signals Directorate (DSD)

Tutorial 9
Introduction to Nessus

Renaud Deraison, Director of Research, Tenable Network Security

Tutorial 10
CANCELLED
Using the APNIC Whois Database to find contacts for the source or target of an attack

Samantha Dickinson, APNIC
Champika Wijayatunga, Senior Training Specialist, APNIC

Tutorial 11
Hacking Techniques and Defensive Measures

Marcus Sachs, Director of the Internet Storm Center, SANS

1515 - 1535

Afternoon Tea sponsored by Zantech   Zantech logo

1540 - 1710

Tutorial 8 (cont.)
Incident Response and Intrusion Analysis - Intermediate Level

Steven Stroud, Manager, Technical Services
David Collett, Technical Computer Security Analyst
Steven McLeod, Technical Adviser
Scott MacLeod, Leader
Dr Michael Cohen, Senior Technical Adviser

Defence Signals Directorate (DSD)

Tutorial 9 (cont.)
Introduction to Nessus

Renaud Deraison, Director of Research, Tenable Network Security

Tutorial 10 (cont.)
CANCELLED
Using the APNIC Whois Database to find contacts for the source or target of an attack

Samantha Dickinson, APNIC
Champika Wijayatunga, Senior Training Specialist, APNIC

Tutorial 11 (cont.)
Hacking Techniques and Defensive Measures

Marcus Sachs, Director of the Internet Storm Center, SANS


Conference program subject to change