- Bell Aliant
- NHTCU & FBI
- Peter Allor
- Marcel van den Berg
- Rainer Böhme
- Bob Burls
- William Cheswick
- Carlos Cid
- Anton Chuvakin
- Dave De Coster
- Lord Errol
- Boris Goranov
- Martijn de Hamer
- Elly van den Heuvel
- Jaap-Henk Hoepman
- Bart Jacobs
- Sari Kajantie
- Mark Koek
- Jos Kuijpers
- Brett Lambo
- Eric Luiijf
- Scott McIntyre
- Milton Mueller
- Pär Österberg Medina
- Carol Overes
- Richard Perlotto
- Dave Rice
- Marcus Sachs
- Jacques Schuurman
- Alex Shipp
- Lance Spitzner
- Don Stikvoort
- Gigi Tagliapietra
- Jan Joris Vereijken
- Rémon Verkerk
- Randal Vickers
- Dave Watson
- Tillmann Werner
- Maurice Wessling
- Colin Whittaker
- Georg Wicherski
- Nicholas Witchell
- Dave Woutersen
Dave De Coster is a Network Security Administrator for the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Since 2003, he has overseen network security for the College of Engineering. In this role, he is responsible for network monitoring, incident detection and incident response for the College. He has earned both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Medical Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Drinking from the Firehose Wednesday 17 September, 14:35 - 15:20, Leeuwen RoomIn large or distributed computing environments, you often don't have the access to individual computers or to the support staff that you would like to have, but at the same time you are responsible for making sure that they are secure and the information is safe. Given limited information and limited access to the endpoint, how can you determine if a specific computer presents a potential security risk?
This presentation is focused on tools that can give the greatest amount of operational awareness of what is happening on your network with the least amount of hassle to maintain. While not a perfect solution, information obtained by watching network traffic can tell you a great deal about what is happening on the individual computer and can help determine if further investigation is warranted.