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Las Vegas, NV - October 10 - 20, 2008
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Global Information Assurance Certification
Topical information that can immediately be applied and shared in the workplace.
-Blair Campbell, Bank of Nova Scotia
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SANS WhatWorks Summit Series
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Sunday, October 12
- 5:00pm - 8:00pm
- Early Registration
Monday, October 13
- 8:30am - 9:30am
- Welcome and Keynote Address
- Steve Shirley, Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center
- 9:30am - 10:30am
- Expert Briefing: The Forensic and IR Counterinsurgency Field Manual - Rob Lee, SANS/Mandiant
- 10:30am - 10:45am
- Break
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Expert Briefing: Upping the "Anti": Using Memory Analysis to Fight Malware - Aaron Walters, Volatile Systems
- 12:15pm - 1:15pm
- Lunch
- 1:15pm - 2:15pm
- IR/Forensic Team Tactics Panel - The best incident response and forensic techniques while responding to a data breach - Cory Altheide/Harlan Carvey, IBM ISS; Kris Harms/Ken Bradley, Mandiant; Chris Novak/Stan Kang, Verizon Cybertrust; Mike Poor/Tom Liston, Intelguardians
- 2:15pm - 2:50pm
- Expert Briefing: iPhone Forensics - Steve Whalen, Forward Discovery
- 2:50pm - 3:05pm
- Break
- 3:05pm - 4:00pm
- Government and Defense Industrial Branch Panel - Successful strategies in responding and mitigating enterprise level intrusion investigations - Government, Department of Defense, Law Enforcement, and Defense Industrial Branch representatives - Ovie Carroll, DOJ; Monty McDougal, Raytheon; George Bakos, Northrop Grumman; Michael Cloppert, Lockheed Martin; Jennifer Kolde, FBI; Kevin Rivera, DC3; Henri Vangoethem, Mantech
- 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Solution Provider and Vendor Panel: Demonstrations of the latest enterprise and host incident response and forensic tools to combat sophisticated threats
- 5:00pm - 8:00pm
- Vendor Hospitality Suites
Tuesday, October 14
- 8:30am - 9:30am
- Welcome and Keynote Address
- Richard Bejtlich, Director of Incident Response, General Electric
Incident Response: Speaking Truth to Power
Are incident responders part of the problem, part of the solution, or
somewhere in between? Are we doing what we can, or what we must? Do we
make a difference?
- 9:30am - 10:30am
- Expert Briefing: "Slaying the Red Dragon: Countering the China Cyber Threat" - Ken Bradley/Wendi Rafferty, Mandiant
- 10:30am - 10:45am
- Break
- 10:45am - 11:15am
- Expert Briefing: Law Enforcement Trends and the Future of Computer Forensics and Incident Response - Ovie Carroll, DOJ
- 11:15am - 12:15pm
- IR/Forensic Team Strategy Panel - Incidents Gone Wrong! How can you prepare better for potential compromise? Case studies of organizational best/worst practices - Cory Altheide/Harlan Carvey, IBM ISS; Kris Harms/Ken Bradley, Mandiant; Chris Novak/Stan Kang, Verizon Cybertrust; Mike Poor/Tom Liston, Intelguardians; Brett Padres, Stroz Friedberg LLC
- 12:15pm - 1:15pm
- Lunch
- 1:15pm - 2:05pm
- Expert Briefing: "Applying Security Intelligence to Drive Incident-Handling" - Bryan Sartin, Verizon Cybertrust
- 2:05pm - 2:50pm
- Expert Briefing: Using the Home Advantage: Combating Anti-Forensics and Linkage Blindness - Eoghan Casey, Handbook of Computer Crime Investigation, Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute
- 2:50pm - 3:05pm
- Break
- 3:05pm - 4:00pm
- Secrets of Registry Analysis Revealed - Harlan Carvey, IBM ISS, author of Windows Forensic Analysis
- 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Vendor Panel: Tools Shootout. Vendors discuss and compare capabilities to investigate and analyze enterprise threats in an open forum where audience participation leads the discussion.