Archive for the ‘Event’ Category
May 16th, 2010 | 
Author: Title: June Meeting
Location: Pythian
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Description:
This month we will be having a presentation from Eseri on virtual environments. Their description follows:
Cloud Computing technology is progressing at several layers – OS virtualization, data-center virtualization, browser based application delivery, and desktop virtualization. Eseri is a local company that has integrated a full organization IT solution from the best of the world’s open source, from hosted Intranet to desktops to applications, and host it in the cloud for access on virtual desktops. Eseri CTO and VP Engineering will demonstrate their solution, describe the architecture, and discuss the security advantages of the virtual desktop approach to the cloud.
Time availability will dictate if we get to continuing the server project. This month we will be adding a basic web server and webmail to the system
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-06-17
End Time: 21:30
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Title: May Meeting
Location: Pythian
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Description: May Meeting for Ottawa Valley SAGE
This month we have two main topics:
- a presentation by Rove-IT on mobile administration (canceled for now)
- We will continue the configuration of the mail server system. This month we will be configuring the Dovecot portion and securing the connections.
As always, there will be some opening discussions and possibly an ignite video.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-05-20
End Time: 21:30
Title: ovSAGE Meeting
Location: The Pythian Group, St. Laurent Mall, Ottawa
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Description: This is the March meeting for Ottawa Valley SAGE.
This month we will be continuing the setup and install of a virtualized system to act as a mail, web, pop, imap, webmail server.
We will also be looking at kickstart, PXE boot for installation and once we have finished all of this, puppet and nagios for configuration management and monitoring
There will be some time at the beginning for any new items and we will be showing another ignite video at the end.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-18
End Time: 21:30
Title: Ottawa Area Security Klatch
Location: Microsoft Canada, 100-152 Queen St., Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Description: Talk #1: DNS Security: The Seven Deadliest Sins
Speaker: Derrick Webber
A vulnerable DNS allows attackers to compromise everything else in the organization: your web sites, servers, SSL, VPNs, even desktops. This short presentation covers the very worst mistakes in the design and operation of the Domain Name Service and how to fix them.
Talk #2: Log-based Intrusion Detection (LIDS) using OSSEC+Splunk
Speaker: Dale Neufeld
OSSEC is multi-platform, open source Host-Based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS). It has a powerful correlation and analysis engine which integrates log analysis, file integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, centralized policy enforcement, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.
Splunk is a platform for IT search that enables you to build completely customizable dashboards, to have alerting and forensic capabilities for security, availability and application troubleshooting, and more.
We’ll focus on the following items:
* Benefits of centralized logging
* Overview of OSSEC architecture
* OSSEC tuning
* OSSEC custom rules for your environment
* Overview of Splunk architecture
* Splunk and OSSEC integration
Start Time: 17:30
Date: 2010-03-16
