Special Events

Welcome to SANS GENERAL SESSION!
- John Strand
- Wednesday, September 3rd * 8:15am - 8:45am

Chicago 2008 Keynote
Advanced Technical Auditing in 2008
- James Tarala
- Wednesday, September 3rd * 5:30pm - 7:00pm

While the process and importance of auditing has not changed, there are critical methodologies and themes that auditors should seriously consider in 2008 and in the near future. Audit programs should regularly evaluate the technology and risk environment where they are conducting audits and ensure that their crafts are up to date. The tests performed on information systems in 2006 are simply not as relevant today. Expanding on these thoughts, and common themes revisited, James Tarala will discuss challenges and considerations auditors must evaluate in 2008.

Authentication Issues: What to fix and Why
- David Hoelzer
- Friday, September 5th * 5:30pm - 7:00pm

David Hoelzer, SANS Fellow and long time InfoSec industry expert, will use this keynote to discuss authentication issues that affect nearly all organizations regardless of whether they are public or private, large or small. The discussion will include very serious yet common flaws in the authentication schemes that we are using today. These flaws affect us whether our systems are fully patched or not. In addition to this, the keynote will talk about technologies and possibilities to better secure our authentication transactions that will give auditors ideas for remediation recommendations, managers ideas for projects and policy changes and technical folks ideas for how to help protect the organization today.

GIAC Brief
- John Strand
- Friday, September 5th * 7:00pm - 8:00pm

SANS Technology Institute Brief
- President Stephen Northcutt
- Saturday, September 6th * 7:00pm - 8:00pm