Events

Presented by Adam Hamilton Date: Thursday, May 8, 2008 Time: 3:30 p.m. **NOTE THE TIME CHANGE** Location: Signature Science office building, 8329 MoPac Expressway (512) 533-2000 Summary: InfraGard has many Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and subgroups that are dedicated to safeguarding a specific type of infrastructure. One of these SIGs is “Agriculture InfraGard”. Mr. Hamilton will be providing an overview of the agricultural threats we face today and a summary of the FBI-sponsored Third International Symposium on Agroterrorism, which he attended in Kansas City last week. He will also describe how the Central Texas Agriculture SIG would work, focusing on helping those interested in agricultural security, networking, and protection.

Cris DeWitt/In-Depth Security, will present a compilation of current information system threat research and findings. New and not so new threats will be discussed with an emphasis on Supplier, Practitioner, and User perspectives.

May 27th, 2008 - Nathan Sportsman and Praveen Kalamegham, Web Services Security @ Whole Foods Downtown The concept of web services has become ubiquitous over the last few years. Frameworks are now available across many platforms and languages to greatly ease and expedite the development of web services, often with a vast amount of existing code reuse. Software companies are taking advantage of this by integrating this technology into their products giving increased power and interoperability to their customers. However, the power web services enables also introduces new risks to an environment. As with web applications, development has outpaced the understanding and mitigation of vulnerabilities that arise from this emerging technology. This presentation will first aim to identify the risks associated with web services. We will describe the existing security standards and technologies which target web services (i.e., WS-Security) including its history, pros and cons, and current status. Finally we will attempt to extrapolate the future of this space to determine what changes must be made going forward.

Meeting: 2008.05.28 0x0014 Our twenty-first technical meeting will be held May 28th, 2008, from 7pm to 9pm, in a meeting room at Mangia. Mangia is located at 8012 Mesa Dr, Austin, Texas (map). Food and drinks are permissible at the meeting, provided you purchase said food and drink from Mangia.