| Event Details: | Mobile Computing Security (One day)
The user computing environment has changed considerably over the last decade because of the increased mobility of users. Mobility poses many security-related challenges (anonymous connections, "always on" connections, cleartext network traffic, wireless networks, and so on), many or most of which are typically not adequately addressed, even though proven solutions are widely available.
Topics covered in this course include:
- Introduction
- Vulnerabilities
- Policies and procedures
- Securing wireless networks
- Securing handheld devices
- Forensics challenges with handheld devices
- Evaluating and auditing security in mobile environments
- Security products
- Wrap-up
Included in the course is an intensive class exercise in which attendees evaluate a real-life mobile computing policy and propose ways to improve it.
This course is appropriate for IT security and audit staff and system and network administrators. It contains a mixture of technical and non-technical content. A fundamental knowledge of networking is helpful, but not necessary.
Dr. Eugene Schultz, CISM, CISSP, is the Chief Technology Officer at Emagined Security, an information security consultancy based in San Carlos, California. He is the author/co-author of five books, one on Unix security, another on Internet security, a third on Windows NT/2000 security, a fourth on incident response, and the latest on intrusion detection and prevention. He has also written over 120 published papers. Gene was the Editor-in-Chief of _Computers and Security_ from 2002 - 2007, is currently on the editorial board for this journal, and is an associate editor of _Network Security_. He is also a SANS instructor, member of the SANS NewsBites editorial board, co-author of the 2005 and 2006 Certified Information Security Manager preparation materials, and is on the technical advisory board of three companies. Gene has previously managed an information security practice as well as a national incident response team. He has also been professor of computer science at several universities and is retired from the University of California at Berkeley. He has received the NASA Technical Excellence Award, the Department of Energy Excellence Award, the ISACA John Kuyers Best Speaker/Best Conference Contributor Award, the Vanguard Conference Top Gun Award (for best presenter) twice, the Vanguard Chairman's Award, and the National Information Systems Security Conference Best Paper Award. A Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), Gene has also been named to the ISSA Hall of Fame and has received ISSA's Professional Achievement and Honor Roll Awards. While at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory he founded and managed of the U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC). He is also a co-founder of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. He is currently a member of the accreditation board of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP). Dr. Schultz has provided expert testimony before committees within the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on various security-related issues, and has served as an expert witness in legal cases.
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