Our experts at White Badger Security present at various conferences and training seminars throughout the year on the most recent developments in information security. Below is a list of some of the events on our schedule:
Upcoming Events
Real World Hacks: Mobile Security & Social Networking: A Recipe for Disaster
Hosted by the ESC 2012 Annual Conference
April 24, 2012
4:00 - 5:00 PM Central
The Woodlands Marriott Waterway
1601 Lake Robbins Dr., The Woodlands, TX 77380
Hackers commonly leverage multiple attack vectors to ensure maximum exposure within a company. The rapidly growing use of handheld mobile computing and social networks such as Facebook in the workplace are among the latest security risks every company faces, and many overlook.
Past Events
Staffing Management SIG Meeting - Enhanced Résumé Analysis Workshop
Hosted by the Houston Resource Management Association
March 29, 2012
Learn how to improve the hiring process through deeper analysis of a candidate's résumé. By preparing interview questions in a specific order from a résumé, the interviewer learns more about a candidate's unique personality, workplace behavior, and productivity without expensive, time-consuming testing. You will learn to determine how a given candidate will respond to the real-world stresses of your workplace and team mates before extending an employment offer.
Workshop Learning Objectives:
After this presentation, attendees will be able to analyze résumés in order to significantly improve the quality of the interview process. Attendees will be able to use the interview process to precisely determine a subject's fit for a particular job opportunity. Attendees will also understand the basics of how to determine a subject's base personality type and likely fit with managers and co-workers.
Real World Horror Stories from One of the World's Foremost Experts on Hacking Investigation
Hosted by Contego Solutions
March 21, 2012
Mickey Mantle's Steakhouse (lunch to be served during event)
#7 Mickey Mantle Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Paul Williams, Executive Director of Security Services, will provide a thorough overview of the technical challenges involved with the detection and remediation of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) malware in the enterprise. Today’s malware is not detected by anti-virus software, intrusion detection systems, log analysis or other traditional best practices. Through a detailed examination of real world case histories, learn how small failures ultimately resulted in massive multi-million dollar losses for organizations. Specially, learn:
- Why mitigating APT malware may be a better strategy than attempting to remove it.
- What is needed to prevent the return of the same or newer, more powerful malware?
- The advanced tools, tactics, and technologies to combat malware security threats.
Real World Horror Stories from One of the World's Foremost Experts on Hacking Investigation
Hosted by Contego Solutions
March 20, 2012
Nicola's Ristorante Italiano (cocktails and h'orderves to follow this event)
5800 Legacy Drive, Suite C1
Plano, TX 75024
Paul Williams, Executive Director of Security Services, will provide a thorough overview of the technical challenges involved with the detection and remediation of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) malware in the enterprise. Today’s malware is not detected by anti-virus software, intrusion detection systems, log analysis or other traditional best practices. Through a detailed examination of real world case histories, learn how small failures ultimately resulted in massive multi-million dollar losses for organizations. Specially, learn:
- Why mitigating APT malware may be a better strategy than attempting to remove it.
- What is needed to prevent the return of the same or newer, more powerful malware?
- The advanced tools, tactics, and technologies to combat malware security threats.
Real World Horror Stories from One of the World's Foremost Experts on Hacking Investigation
Hosted by Contego Solutions
March 20, 2012
DataBank
400 S. Akard St., Suite 100
Dallas, TX 75202
Paul Williams, Executive Director of Security Services, will provide a thorough overview of the technical challenges involved with the detection and remediation of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) malware in the enterprise. Today’s malware is not detected by anti-virus software, intrusion detection systems, log analysis or other traditional best practices. Through a detailed examination of real world case histories, learn how small failures ultimately resulted in massive multi-million dollar losses for organizations. Specially, learn:
- Why mitigating APT malware may be a better strategy than attempting to remove it.
- What is needed to prevent the return of the same or newer, more powerful malware?
- The advanced tools, tactics, and technologies to combat malware security threats.
Real World Horror Stories from One of the World's Foremost Experts on Hacking Investigation
Hosted by Contego Solutions
March 19, 2012
Truluck's (cocktails and h'orderves to follow this event)
400 Colorado St.
Austin, TX 78701
Paul Williams, Executive Director of Security Services, will provide a thorough overview of the technical challenges involved with the detection and remediation of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) malware in the enterprise. Today’s malware is not detected by anti-virus software, intrusion detection systems, log analysis or other traditional best practices. Through a detailed examination of real world case histories, learn how small failures ultimately resulted in massive multi-million dollar losses for organizations. Specially, learn:
- Why mitigating APT malware may be a better strategy than attempting to remove it.
- What is needed to prevent the return of the same or newer, more powerful malware?
- The advanced tools, tactics, and technologies to combat malware security threats.
Real World Horror Stories from One of the World's Foremost Experts on Hacking Investigation
Hosted by Contego Solutions
March 19, 2012
Maggiano's (lunch to follow this event)
17603 IH 10W
San Antonio, TX 78257
Paul Williams, Executive Director of Security Services, will provide a thorough overview of the technical challenges involved with the detection and remediation of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) malware in the enterprise. Today’s malware is not detected by anti-virus software, intrusion detection systems, log analysis or other traditional best practices. Through a detailed examination of real world case histories, learn how small failures ultimately resulted in massive multi-million dollar losses for organizations. Specially, learn:
- Why mitigating APT malware may be a better strategy than attempting to remove it.
- What is needed to prevent the return of the same or newer, more powerful malware?
- The advanced tools, tactics, and technologies to combat malware security threats.
USSS Task Force Quarterly Meeting
Hosted by the United States Secret Service - Electronic Crimes Task Force
March 1, 2012
Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office
Gus George Academy Building
1521 Eugene Heimann Circle, Richmond, TX 77469
Journey into the tactics and mentality of the world's worst cyber pest, the professional hacker. Through a detailed examination of real world case histories, learn how small failures of process, people procedure, software, tools, training and techniques over time ultimately resulted in massive multi-million dollar losses to esteemed corporations. Experience the frustration of law enforcement at the difficulty of tracking down the perpetrators and bringing them to timely justice. Understand firsthand the difficulty of detecting, stopping or preventing targeted professional hacker attacks.
More importantly, learn the advanced tactics, skills, and mentality needed to successfully combat information security threats. This is an interesting and entertaining presentation designed to raise cyber security awareness.
TAG Government Technology - Government Hacker Defense
Hosted by the Technology Association of Georgia
February 13, 2012
Journey into the tactics and mentality of the world's worst cyber pest, the professional hacker. Through a detailed examination of real world case histories, learn how small failures of process, people procedure, software, tools, training and techniques over time ultimately resulted in massive multi-million dollar losses to esteemed corporations. Experience the frustration of law enforcement at the difficulty of tracking down the perpetrators and bringing them to timely justice.
Understand firsthand the difficulty of detecting, stopping or preventing targeted professional hacker attacks.
Horror Stories of Advanced Persistent Threats
Hosted by Contego Solutions, LLC
February 7, 2012
Paul Williams, one of the country’s foremost experts on network security, advanced persistent threats and crimeware will be the keynote speaker at the Contego’s “Stories of Advanced Persistent Threats" event at DataBank.
10% of the audience will win a Kindle Fire, but that isn’t the only reason you should attend. Williams, Executive Director of Security Services at White Badger, will provide a “real world” view of the professional hacker and the difficulty business and governmental agencies have in stopping hacker attacks.
Real World Hacks: Social Network Dangers and What To Do About It
Hosted by the Energy Security Council
November 8, 2011
Presentation Photo
Hackers commonly leverage multiple attack vectors to ensure maximum exposure. There is no longer a single point of entry into the enterprise. The growing use of social networks such as Facebook in the workplace is the latest security risk. Learn up close how the latest social network based attacks work. More importantly, learn an array of relatively simply but remarkably effective technical configuration changes which will significantly reduce your enterprise's risk exposure to social networks. Discussed solutions will include operating system and web browser configuration changes, web browser plug protection, and data egress protection.
NAISG Houston Training Seminar - Foundations of Information Security
November 2, 2011
Delve into the heart of design‐level security in the enterprise. Learn how to bake security into the network from an architectural design standpoint up, rather than sprinkling security on at the end. Learn how to improve security, reliability and significantly lower the cost of network ownership by reconfiguring the logical and physical interconnectivity and configuration of routers, switches, firewalls, DMZ configurations, VLAN configurations, proxy servers, remote access infrastructure, DNS, databases, servers, enterprise authentication, Active Directory domain(s) configuration, domain policies, Group Policies and more. Data asset classification and network compartmentalization are explained like never before using actual customer case history examples. Finally, watch a hands‐on demonstration of innovative yet inexpensive ways to permanently remediate entire classes of security vulnerabilities at once by reconfiguring operating systems and security software in new ways.
The emphasis of this seminar is identifying obscure but common‐sense solutions already inherent in most operating systems and widely available inexpensive off‐the‐shelf hardware and software products. The introduction of new network equipment is a secondary consideration; the reconfiguration of the existing infrastructure is the primary consideration.
White Badger Security's Executive Director of Security Services, Paul Williams, will address such questions while exploring several aspects of the current malware threats.
Real World Hack Attacks: Actual Case Studies from the Trenches
Hosted by Business Security Solutions, FireEye and Guidance Software
Smith & Wollensky Houston
October 12, 2011
Journey into the tactics and mentality of the world's worst cyber pest, the professional hacker. Through a detailed examination of real world case histories, learn how small failures of process, people procedure, software, tools, training and techniques over time ultimately resulted in massive multi-million dollar losses to esteemed corporations. Experience the frustration of law enforcement at the difficulty of tracking down the perpetrators and bringing them to timely justice. Understand firsthand the difficulty of detecting, stopping or preventing targeted professional hacker attacks.
More importantly, learn the advanced tactics, skills, and mentality needed to successfully combat information security threats. This is an interesting and entertaining presentation designed to raise executive level and IT staff cyber security awareness.
Staffing Management SIG Meeting - Enhanced Résumé Analysis Workshop
Hosted by the Houston Resource Management Association
September 28, 2011
Presentation Photos
Learn how to improve the hiring process through deeper analysis of a candidate's résumé. By preparing interview questions in a specific order from a résumé, the interviewer learns more about a candidate's unique personality, workplace behavior, and productivity without expensive, time-consuming testing. You will learn to determine how a given candidate will respond to the real-world stresses of your workplace and team mates before extending an employment offer.
Workshop Learning Objectives:
After this presentation, attendees will be able to analyze résumés in order to significantly improve the quality of the interview process. Attendees will be able to use the interview process to precisely determine a subject's fit for a particular job opportunity. Attendees will also understand the basics of how to determine a subject's base personality type and likely fit with managers and co-workers.
Real World Hack Attacks: Actual Case Studies from the Trenches
Hosted by Business Security Solutions and Websense
Smith & Wollensky Houston
September 21, 2011
Presentation Photos
Journey into the tactics and mentality of the world's worst cyber pest, the professional hacker. Through a detailed examination of real world case histories, learn how small failures of process, people procedure, software, tools, training and techniques over time ultimately resulted in massive multi-million dollar losses to esteemed corporations. Experience the frustration of law enforcement at the difficulty of tracking down the perpetrators and bringing them to timely justice. Understand firsthand the difficulty of detecting, stopping or preventing targeted professional hacker attacks.
More importantly, learn the advanced tactics, skills, and mentality needed to successfully combat information security threats. This is an interesting and entertaining presentation designed to raise executive level and IT staff cyber security awareness.
FOSE 2011 Session - CNI-5: Situational Awareness - Mitigating the Next Stuxnet
July 20, 2011
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The Stuxnet worm was a 'game-changer'. It showed government, national security and IT professionals not only that malware has the potential to paralyze operating systems used in critical systems, but that there were organizations in the world that had the resources and time to commit to such an organized and well-funded attack. A top DoD cyber priority is establishing effective Situational Awareness (SA) across the DoD enterprise, establishing a user-customized Cyber Common Operational Picture (Cyber COP) that empowers commanders and decision makers at all levels to "see" the cyber battlefield in order to ensure freedom of action in cyberspace, while denying the enemy the same.
Learning Objectives:
The history of the Stuxnet worm
How Stuxnet could have been mitigated through the right technology mix
Steps government IT executives can take to prevent cyber attacks of this magnitude
White Badger Security's Executive Director of Security Services, Paul Williams, will be speaking and covering these learning objectives.
ISSA Web Conference - The Changing Face of Malware
Live Event: June 28, 2011
Malware has been around for some time now and does not seem to be going away. In fact, it is becoming more prevalent and dangerous with malware releases now exceeding those of legitimate software. Malware is a contaminant, a spy, and a resource thief that can leave your system damaged, and your confidential information compromised. It exposes your organization and users to a source of harmful worms, Trojan horses, and viruses.
How can you keep track of new malware threats, how do you know you have been attacked, how did you get attacked, and what are the impacts or ramifications of the new malware threats?
White Badger Security's Executive Director of Security Services, Paul Williams, will address such questions while exploring several aspects of the current malware threats.