Infragard East Tennessee Alliance

The ETCSS Committee proudly presents the Seventh Annual East Tennessee CyberSecurity Summit being held in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee at the Knoxville-Hilton Hotel on October 12^th and 13^th, 2011.  The Conference is again co-hosted by the FBI, University of Tennessee, Fountainhead College, TVA, TVA-OIG, and ORNL.  InfraGard chapter members, IT professionals in academia, government, law, and private industry from across the region will be attending as well.

The event is just a few weeks away so mark your calendars now and plan ahead.  Repeat attendees, high conference quality, and new program offerings predict that seats will sell out early.

The early registration fee of $125 per person will cover conference admission and include:

• 16 hours of Continuing Professional Education units
• Learning from and networking with your colleagues
• Lunch and parking for both days of the conference

A special accommodation rate at the downtown Knoxville Hilton is available for conference attendees.  See the conference web site for details.

To register for the event and the breakout sessions please visit our web site at www.etcss.org

The theme for this year’s conference is “From the Board Room to the Court Room”

This year we are pleased to include speakers on Energy Security, NIST SP 800-53 Security Controls Catalog and Risk Assessment updates, incident response, and the recent cyber events at ORNL.  Additionally, the Summit will feature six breakout sessions, each limited to an audience of ~70 registrants each.

To register for the sessions please visit our web site at http://www.etcss.org/registration/breakout-registration/.  You will see a selection for each breakout session time period, and you will already be registered for the Main Session.  You should choose whether you will attend the breakout session or the Main Session for that time period.  For those breakout sessions you do not wish to attend, leave the Main Session selected.

If you have already registered for the conference, you will still need to register for each breakout session you wish to attend. If you have not yet registered for the conference, you must do that prior to registering for breakouts.

This year’s breakouts include the following topics.

Harlan Carvey will present a breakout session on “What’s New in Windows 7: An Analyst’s Perspective.”  Harlan, a computer forensics author, researcher and practitioner, has written several books and tools focusing on Windows systems and incident response. Check out more information at his blog at http://windowsir.blogspot.com/.  (Harlan will also present a main session on “Incident Preparedness.”)

Joe McCray of Strategic Security, an in-demand instructor, will present a breakout session on SQL Injection.  Joe has an extensive background in pen-testing, forensics, and training as well as hacking experience.  (Joe will also present a main session on “You Spent All That Money and Still Got Owned?”)

Returning this year is Bill Dean of Sword & Shield Enterprise Security who will present a breakout session on “Determining Advanced Attacks Using Memory Forensics.”  (Bill will also present a main session on decisions made in the Boardroom and their outcomes.)

Ajay Aggarwal of Palo Alto Networks will present a breakout session on “Making Network Security Meaningful from the Boardroom to the Courtroom,” a discussion of current regulations, policies, and incidents; moving network security from data to information; and considerations around logging – detail, best practices, and legal concerns.

Booz Allen Hamilton will present a session on their Risk-Informed Decision-making (Risk-ID) methodology.  The presentation will talk broadly about defining measures of mission risk, comparing different types of risk investments on an “apples-to-apples” basis, determining how changes in key mission priorities or total budget impacts resource decisions, building organizational consensus for resource re-allocation, and justifying spending strategies for key stakeholders, including Congress.

Jeff Schibonski from Oak Ridge National Laboratory will present a breakout session on insider threats. Jeff is a computer scientist specializing in protecting information and information systems from both internal and external threats.

In a year filled with breaches, persistent attacks, complex malware and “hacktivism”, we look to bring our attendees presentations and technical breakout sessions that provide information, techniques and tools to prepare them to make the best decision they can to protect their data and systems. In addition, we provide speakers and breakout sessions that will add value to the conference and your education as well as new opportunities to expand your professional network.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING ALL OF YOU THERE!!!!!!

ETCSS 2011 Committee