SANS along with DSCI hosted a community reception last week in Bangalore. This was a great opportunity for the information security practitioners in the city to interact with each other and hear from the SANS instructors who were in town for two of SANS courses.
The event featured the following topics:
Defending Against “Man-in-the-Middle” Attacks by Bryce Galbraith. Bryce discussed about “man-in-the-middle” (MiTM) attacks and how attackers use advanced attacks to defeat common encryption mechanisms (SSL, RDP, VPN, etc). He also discussed about many of the tools that the attackers use.
Memory Analysis for Incident Responders and Forensic Analysts by Chad Tilbury. Chad discussed about the newest trend in forensic analysis, the memory forensics and how it helps organizations to identify many of the new attack techniques.
The event also featured, Varun Sharma, Security Engineer for Microsoft. His talk was on Windows BitLocker, in which he discussed how BitLocker encrypts a volume, where are the keys stored and what options organizations have to recover data encrypted using BitLocker. He also discussed how, using GPO, organizations can centrally backup the keys of individual machines.
Overall it was very informative and I asked Suresh (SANS Managing Director) to conduct more community events like this.
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