{"id":35,"date":"2006-08-06T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T16:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ale.org\/new\/?p=35"},"modified":"2006-08-06T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T17:10:14","slug":"ale-central-mtg-for-thursday-aug-10-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"ALE Central Mtg. for Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nOur presentation for August 10th will be<br \/>\n<font size=\"+1\"><br \/>\n&#8220;The Current State of  Wireless Security&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\nwith one of ALE&#8217;s top security experts,<br \/>\n <font size=\"+1\">Michael Warfield<\/font><br \/>\nInternet Security Systems Inc., Atlanta<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Synopsis:<br \/>\n     This session is an overview of the current state of<br \/>\n802.11* wireless standards, security profiles, developments<br \/>\nand practices.<\/p>\n<p>Detail:<br \/>\nAs hardware costs plummet, wireless networks are proliferating<br \/>\nrapidly.  Many are badly configured and highly insecure, in spite<br \/>\nof improvements in standards and default configurations.  This<br \/>\ntalk on Wireless Security will be an update on the state of the<br \/>\nart in 802.11 [abgix] security and security practices.  Included<br \/>\nwill be some recent developments in standards, security<br \/>\nincidents, and developments in the field as well as<br \/>\nrecommendations on securing wireless infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Bio:<br \/>\n      Michael Warfield is the Senior Researcher and Fellow on<br \/>\nthe X-Force of Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS), a leading<br \/>\nglobal provider of information protection solutions that secure<br \/>\nIT infrastructure and defend key online assets from attack and<br \/>\nmisuse.  He is also an active member of the Samba development<br \/>\nteam and is a contributor to the Linux Kernel and numerous Open<br \/>\nSource Software projects.  Mike has published articles on both<br \/>\nSamba and on Security and is a respected cryptographer in the<br \/>\nOpen Source community.<\/p>\n<p>==========<br \/>\nMeeting time is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm<br \/>\nDirections to ALE Central meetings at Emory<br \/>\nLaw School are linked on the side bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Current State of  Wireless Security with Michael Warfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ale-central","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}