We will be shooting from the hip this month doing some playing around with Cacti and network monitoring tools. Very loose and informal as always.
Our presentation for August 10th will be
“The Current State of Wireless Security”
with one of ALE’s top security experts,
Michael Warfield
Internet Security Systems Inc., Atlanta
Synopsis:
This session is an overview of the current state of
802.11* wireless standards, security profiles, developments
and practices.
Detail:
As hardware costs plummet, wireless networks are proliferating
rapidly. Many are badly configured and highly insecure, in spite
of improvements in standards and default configurations. This
talk on Wireless Security will be an update on the state of the
art in 802.11 [abgix] security and security practices. Included
will be some recent developments in standards, security
incidents, and developments in the field as well as
recommendations on securing wireless infrastructure.
Bio:
Michael Warfield is the Senior Researcher and Fellow on
the X-Force of Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS), a leading
global provider of information protection solutions that secure
IT infrastructure and defend key online assets from attack and
misuse. He is also an active member of the Samba development
team and is a contributor to the Linux Kernel and numerous Open
Source Software projects. Mike has published articles on both
Samba and on Security and is a respected cryptographer in the
Open Source community.
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Meeting time is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to ALE Central meetings at Emory
Law School are linked on the side bar.
We will be demonstrating FreeNX for the meeting.
FreeNX is a remote desktop solution that is comparable to VNC or RDP that is primarily suited for high latency low bandwith network connections.
Greetings, everyone!
This week’s ALE NW will be held here at The Weather Channel on-schedule.
This week’s speaker and topic is Sid lane of The Weather Channel speaking on MySQL Replication.
The meeting will start as normal. Please arrive at 7:15 for escort up to the conference area. We will try to get everyone escorted upstairs on time to be able to start on time. Presentation & Q/A period should last roughly 1 1/2 – 2 hours.
With apologies, we were not able to arrange a formal
presentation for the July ALE Central Meeting.
As an alternative, we are offering a more socially
minded informal event, which is to have a casual ALE
gathering with ALE tasting and free form Linux type
discussions at:
MELTON’S APP & TAP
2500 North Decatur Road
Decatur, GA 30033
404.634.9112
Melton’s is exactly 6 stop lights (and about 2 miles) East
of our usual Emory Law School venue. It is at the corner
of Scott Blvd. and North Decatur roads, next door to a Pet
Supermarket store.
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Melton’s has an broad selection of brews and some
unique, reasonably priced edible offerings for both
appetizers and dinners. (Consider Irish Nachos for
instance…)
As always, if you have a Linux presentation offering,
contact or idea to share, please get in touch with:
Aaron Ruscetta
or Charles Shapiro