Monthly Meeting - Dallas Area - www.NTSUG.org

We are pleased to announce our monthly meeting will be held on Saturday,
June 5th at 10am.  We will have Dave Thomason, Director of Security
Engineering for Sourcefire there to do a demo of the Sourcefire products =
and
RNA.  This is a great time to get all the questions you have about the
Sourcefire products answered. It is sure to be an exciting time for all =
with
a gathering at the Champs just around the corner for a little fun and
fellowship over lunch afterwards.  Our first meeting had over 25 people =
and
was a real blast (http://www.ntsug.org/meetings/may04.html), if you are =
in
the Dallas (or North Texas) area do not miss this one.=20
(food and drink provided)

Here is a short Bio of out guest:

Mr. Thomason is presently the Director of Security Engineering at
Sourcefire. In 1986, Mr. Thomason started his career in security while =
in
the United States Air Force. There, he was responsible for building =
systems
compliant with the National Security Agency=92s C2-level security =
standard.
Later in his Air Force career, Mr. Thomason was one of the founders of =
the
Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT) where he worked in a
number of roles including Incident Response Team Lead. After almost 10 =
years
in the military, Mr. Thomason went to work for a defense contractor and
continued to serve in the AFCERT where he was responsible for the =
successful
apprehension and prosecution of three hackers. Subsequently, Mr. =
Thomason
became a security consultant where he conducted hundreds of information
security risk assessments, penetration tests and security system =
deployment
and integration projects. In fact, Mr. Thomason was the project manager
responsible for the largest deployment of intrusion detection systems in =
an
American financial institution. Mr. Thomason=92s entire career has been
security related with his focus being on intrusion detection systems.


The meeting is Sponsored by and held at the facilities of Absolute =
Systems,
located at 4139 Centurion Way, Addison, Texas

Future meetings will include a day on forensics and a demonstration of =
Bamm
Visher's "sguil" front-end for snort.=20

Please see http://www.ntsug.org/meetings.html for more details. Or =
e-mail us
at [email protected]

(p.s. For you CISSP's this count's as Continuing Education Credits)

Patrick S. Harper | CISSP RHCT MCSE
www.internetsecurityguru.com

www.ntsug.org - Snort Users Group
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