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AusCERT2005
AusCERT Asia Pacific
Information Technology Security Conference
22nd - 26th May 2005 - Royal Pines Resort - Gold Coast, Australia


Programme Overview

Day Zero: Sunday, 22nd May 2005

Golf (From 1300)
Conference Registration (1800 - 2100)
Welcome Reception (1900 - 2100)



Days One, Two and Three

Plenary Sessions

Security Design: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
Bruce Schneier, CTO, Counterpane Internet Security

Top problems of the Internet and what can be done to help
Kc Claffy, Director, Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis

The Zen of Network Security: Seeing Mountains, Moving Mountains
Richard Thieme, Professional speaking, writing, consulting, ThiemeWorks

Why do hackers hack?
Steven Branigan, President of Cyanline, LLC, a wireless network security company.

Getting Clear About Information Security Roles & Responsibilities
Charles Cresson Wood, (CISA, CISM, CISSP) Independent Information Security Consultant, Sausalito, California

The Cracking of the Cipher Challenge
Simon Singh, Author, Journalist and TV Producer

Future Security of VoIP and SCADA
Robert Graham, Chief Scientist, Internet Security Systems (ISS)

Online ID theft - the next revolution in military affairs
Graham Ingram, General Manager, AusCERT



Technical and Business Streams

I am not a target
Ron Brandis, Principle Information Security Consultant, Electronic Warfare Associates-Australia

Exploits -- The past, the present and the future
Paul Ducklin, Head of Technology, Asia Pacific, Sophos ANZ

Experience in fighting DDOS attacks
Nicolas Fischbach, Senior Manager, Network Engineering Security, COLT Telecom

Artifact Analysis - Methodologies and Trends
Kevin J. Houle, Artifact Analysis Team Leader, CERT Coordination Center

The Threat of Internet Worms
Vern Paxson, Senior Scientist, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkely and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Intelligent proactive network monitoring
Jacques Schuurman, Chair, SURFnet-CERT

The Active Response Continuum to Cyber Attacks
David Dittrich, Senior Security Engineer, Washington University

Building an Enterprise E-mail Filtering Gateway
Bojan Zdrnja, The University of Auckland

2005 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey
Kevin Zuccato, Director, Australian High Tech Crime Centre

2005 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey
Jamie Gillespie, Senior Security Analyst, AusCERT

AFP Case Studies - Absent Security
Matthew Thomson, Computer Examiner, Australian Federal Police

AFP Case Studies - Absent Security
Darrell Betts, Computer Examiner, Australian Federal Police

Web Application Security - The next BIG challenge
Oliver Binz, General Manager, b-sec

Writing Practical Information Security Policies
Charles Cresson Wood, (CISA, CISM, CISSP) Independent Information Security Consultant, Sausalito, California

Information Security Governance
Rupert Dodds, Director of information risk management team, KPMG

Security contracts: The devil is in the detail
Gretchen Golik, Security Architect, QANTAS Airways

Security Management: How to implement?
Joo Soo Lim, Security Consultant, Telstra Corporation

Threats to the Net: an overview of the U.S. perspective of the changing nature of computer crime illustrated by selected case studies
Christopher M.E. Painter, Deputy Chief, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the Department of Justice USA

10 New Year's Resolutions for 2005 - A Mid-Year Review --- How are we doing?
William Pelgrin, Director, NYS Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure

Key Guidelines in Determining Which Systems to Address First in the Battle Against Risks, Vulnerabilities & Regulatory Non-Compliance
Chris Pick, Vice-President Security Management, NetIQ

Bots and Botnets - The Automation of Computer Network Attack
David Dittrich, Senior Security Engineer, Washington University

Forensics, Privacy and ISP Liability - Weaving and Dodging Risk
Phillip Hourigan, Partner, Deacons

WarBussing: The State of Wireless Security in a cross section of a major Australian City
David Conran, Security Specialist, WebCentral

Security's quantum future - quantum cryptography and quantum computation
Geoff Pryde, Research Fellow, Centre for Quantum Computer Technology and Physics Department, The University of Queensland

Spyware - a Microsoft perspective
Jason Garms, Anti-Malware Product Team, Microsoft

Spyware - is it here to stay?
David Ahmad, Development, Symantec Corporation



R&D Stream

Reverse Engineering of Network Signatures
Darren Mutz, University of California, Santa Barbara

User Centric Identity Management
Simon Pope, DSTC

A novel application of PKI smartcards to anonymise Health Identifiers
Stephen Wilson, Director, Lockstep Consulting

The Security of Wireless Computing Technologies
David Ross, Queensland University of Technology

IEEE 802.11i WLAN Security Protocol - A Software Engineer's Model
Elanker Sithirasenan, Griffith University

Passive Techniques for Detecting Session Hijacking Attacks in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
Rupinder Gill, Queensland University of Technology

Detecting Network-based Obfuscated Code Injection Attacks Using Sandboxing
Stig Andersson, Queensland University of Technology



Sponsors Stream

Introducing Next Generation Prevention Technologies that Keep YOU Ahead of the Threat
Steve Reddock, Internet Security Systems

How to securely deliver Access to your organisation, why Access is Strategic to Security and your Success
Phil Montgomery, Citrix Systems

Architecting a Secure Future??
Stephen MacDonald, Check Point Software Technologies, Australia

From Chaos to Control: Assuring Service by Securing the Enterprise
Chris Pick, Vice-President Security Management, NetIQ

Technology to Support Incident Management & Response
Scott Mann, Dimension Data

The New Reality in Security Management: Effective Security means Business Alignment
Malcolm Lister, Computer Associates

The Tipping Point ¡V E-mail Threat Convergence
Mark Sunner, MessageLabs

Preparing for Tomorrow¡¦s Threats, Today
Vincent Gullotto, McAfee

Spamware, Spyware, Malware, Grayware: Do you want to ¡¥wear¡¦ the high costs?
Michael Grace, Imagineering Security Services (ISSP)

Strong Authentication for the Internet
Nicolas Popp, VeriSign, California

Protecting Windows from the Next Worm -- Reactive Security Solutions Are No Longer Enough
Thor Larholm, PivX Solutions

Are your valuable data assets secure?
Nicko van Someren, nCipher, Australia

Single Sign-On: Fact or Fiction?
Geoff Noble, RSA Security, Australia

Corporation Patterns, Best Practices & Standards for Deploying Federated Identity Management Solutions in a Web Services world
Venkat Raghavan, IBM, USA

Borderless Security
Andrew Younger, Senior Engineer, SafeNet Australia

Application Security ¡V Why conventional firewalls, IPS, HIDS and antivirus are not enough
Mark Verbloot, F5 Networks

Cost effective defence-in-depth, providing application and content security
Christo Simeonoff, Blue Sky Industries Pty Ltd

Integrate or bust: Why spyware isn't the only internet security threat
Charles Heunemann, SurfControl

VoIP Security: What are the real issues?
Phillip Yialeloglou, Cisco Systems, Australia

Security Myths
Jesper Johansson, Microsoft Corporation

Combining the best in antispam with the best in antivirus
Saeed Hagh, Symantec Australia

The DNA of IT Security
Oscar Marquez, VP of Product Management, Tier-3



Tutorials

Artifact Analysis Tutorial
Kevin J. Houle, Artifact Analysis Team Leader, CERT Coordination Center

Return on Investment for Information Security
David Lynas, President, David Lynas Consulting Group

Running a high-tech investigation: it ain't just forensics...
Steven Branigan, President of Cyanline, LLC, a wireless network security company.

A ¡¥Standards¡¨ approach to the development of system security plans
Dr Sue Dudley, Information Security Group Manager, Victoria Police

Fighting Internet diseases: DDos, worms and miscreants
Nicolas Fischbach, Senior Manager, Network Engineering Security, COLT Telecom

Unix Security Audit & Control
Gary Gaskell, Security Architect, Infosec Services Pty Ltd and ISI, QUT

Presenting IT evidence in the Courtroom
Ajoy Ghosh, Consultant

Honeynets
Lance Spitzner, President, Honeynet Project

Identifying Weak Applications
Justin Derry, Senior Security Consultant, b-sec

IPV6 security threats
Darrin J. Miller, Technical Leader, Security Technology Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.



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