[Owasp-austin] Owasp - GeekAustin Party - August 19th

[Rich Vázquez]

--Reminder--

We are revisiting our last presentation with a GeekAustin party.
GeekAustin has been connecting tech folks in Austin for a couple of
decades now.
http://geekaustin.org/2008/08/10/geekaustin-roots/

This is an opportunity to network with other local security and web
professionals and let them know about OWASP.  Anyone is welcome to
show up, but if you are interested in helping represent OWASP, please
contact me directly so we can coordinate - rich.vazquez at gmail.com.  It
would be great if folks who have attended OWASP Austin from the
beginning can attend.

Below is the information on the gathering
--------------
http://geekaustin.org/2008/08/11/rebirth-of-opensims/

This is a presentation and party co-hosted by GeekAustin and
OWASP-Austin. In the front room at Union Park, we'll have the usual
drinks and shenanigans. In the boom boom room, Mando and whurley will
have a presentation and discussion on openSIMS. Although openSIMS has
a lot of complicated things going on under the hood, Mando and whurley
have a knack for expressing it in layman's terms. The recruiters
probably won't understand it, but they'll be up front buying drinks
for anyone who says they know Java.


openSIMS

If you have any friends/colleagues who do high-level security work,
and tell you the tales, you've probably heard statistics to the effect
that banks and similar institutions are cyber-attacked millions of
times each week. You may also have heard that thousands of those
attacks are successful. With the growth of hacking and phishing from
bored teenager to organized crime groups, this is the reality.

An institution can have teams of the best IT security, firewall,
intrusion detection, and forensics experts. They can employ a range of
tools: snort, nessus, nmap, nagios, as well as costly enterprise
tools. However, when attacked by an army of bots, it frequently isn't
enough. Some attacks succeed.

openSIMS provides a way to integrate Nmap, Snort, Nagios, and Nessus
into a common event correlation framework. More importantly, it
provides a way for enterprises to selectively share network threat
data realtime. Most importantly, openSIMS is an open-source project
that is free to install and implement.

OWASP-Austin

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a worldwide free
and open community focused on improving the security of application
software. Our mission is to make application security "visible," so
that people and organizations can make informed decisions about
application security risks. Everyone is free to participate in OWASP
and all of our materials are available under a free and open software
license. The Austin group meets monthly for a lunch talk.
http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Austin

If you are interested in hearing about the state of network security
(what the folks who hold your online information don't tell you), and
the emergence of the "Community Centric Security" model, I think you
will find this an interesting discussion.

Then again, you can also just hang out up front and toss down drinks.
Either way, I hope you can make it.

Rebirth of openSIMS - party and presentation
Tuesday, August 19th, 6PM-10PM
presentation at 7PM in the BoomBoom Room
Union Park, 612 W Sixth St.