ITCi 2007

This is the presentation that I gave earlier this week at the ITCi Conference in San Diego, California. It was well received and fostered a lot of interesting discussion.

My recording of the event on my laptop had enough problems as to be distracting, so I gave up on using it to export a real-time presentation. Instead I will try to give my speaking points inline with my individual slides. If a good audio recording becomes available, I will kick out a video format of this presentation synched with discussion audio. I was hoping to make use of some of the new Keynote functionality, but the audio and speaking position setup was a little questionable and I was unable to see my speaking notes, so I winged it freestyle. Everything seems to go well in a free form way.

Anyway. On to my presentation.

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November 12th, 2007 | Tags: , , | Category: Business, Information Security, Management, Presentations | One comment

Security Information Management [SIM]

This is no simple task as there is a lot of sales material that will promise anything, but from the presentation of the architecture and real-world benchmarking, a clear image may present itself.Two of the large commercial research firms authored materials were also gathered to assist in this mater, though one of them was shockingly inaccurate, unfamiliar with the history and utility of the tools in practice, and offered some very poor advice in its conclusions. Unfortunately this is all too common in my experience with commercial research, so the wise buyer of capital investment level hardware and software would be best served to spend the time evaluating each architecture, dependancies, and challenges if they are able.That being said, I will begin my presentation: A SIM implementation has the ability to solve a variety of problems at once due to its evolution from a log management platform. [...]

October 8th, 2007 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Business, Information Security, Management, Presentations, Projects, Technology | Leave a comment