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Aplura's consultants are part of the information security community, and as
such develop papers and participate in seminars and speaking events. Feel free to check the schedule or
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Seminars, Lectures, and Public Appearances
| Date | Presenter | Title | Description |
| Nov. 9 2009 | Sean Wilkerson | Presentation: Security Threats of Modern Day Banking Customers | Sean was asked to present at the CISO Forum of a US Agency regarding security threats that challenge banking customers. We will discuss threats, threat-vectors and mitigations. |
| May. 7 2009 | Sean Wilkerson | Presentation: Void Your Warranty | Typical enterprise network security architecture includes many solutions
(software and hardware) designed to do things such as enhance
visibility/detection of threats or stop unwanted traffic. Billions of
dollars are spent each year on security products which keep color graphs
on our executives desks, security managers at relative peace, and the
vendors in business, but what are these products missing?
The average IT Security administrator is slowly losing control of their network with each appliance or turn-key solution they install. We will discuss how to get back this control, hold your vendors and staff accountable, and why this is critical. |
| Apr. 6/7 2009 | Sean Wilkerson | Panelist: SANS Log Management Summit | Sean was recommended by Splunk to present on "Innovative Uses of Log Management: Beyond Compliance. One attendee (Misha Govshteyn CTO of AlertLogic) posted this favorable review of Sean's presentation which begins: Sean Wilkerson from Aplura gave one of the only substantive looks at broader trends in log management.. |
| Mar. 11 2009 | Sean Wilkerson | Presentation: Log Centralization For Security:PPT, PDF, ODP | Sean presented at CALUG's March meeting, on Centralizing Security Data - Current Threats, Trends, and Deployment Considerations. One attendee (Dustin Fritz from the Computer Network Defense Group) posted this blog entry of the event. |
| Jan. 27 2009 | Sean Wilkerson | Video: Splunk ROI Interview | The Splunk video team pulled Sean aside for an interview during a seminar. |
| Oct. 21 2008 | Sean Wilkerson | Panelist: Splunk Live East Customer Panelist | Invited by Splunk to sit on their panel during the Splunk Live East event |
| Aug. 2008 | Sean Wilkerson | Presentation: Wireless Policy Enforcement Market Survey - 2008:PPT, PDF, ODP | Aplura performed a market survey and evaluation of WIPS products in August 2008 |
| Oct. 10 2007 | Sean Wilkerson | Presentation: Before You SIM: A look at central log collection DOs and DON'Ts | A discussion of SIM (Security Information Management) technology, what it is, and how it might or might not be helpful to an organization. Also covered is: determining requirements, vendor selection, implementation, and validation. |
| Aug. 8, 2007 | Daniel Deighton | Presentation: FOSS Virtualization Technologies | Overview of existing virtualization technologies followed by a real-world example featuring Xen. Tips, tricks and gotchas will be covered. |
| Jun. 13, 2007 | Sean Wilkerson | Presentation: Make a Failed COTS Solution Useful With FOSS | How we overcame a technical limitation with a proprietary solution using a little creativity and FOSS to convert 100 COTS IDS appliances into our own security platform. |
Papers
| Date | Title | Description |
| Nov. 2009 | Paper: E-mail (In)Security Risks of Sending Sensitive E-mail | Too often, e-mail is used to send confidential information insecurely. This is an essay to help explain some of the insecurities of e-mail and will hopefully make you think twice before sending that next confidential message. |
| Oct. 2009 | Paper: Password Reuse | An essay on the best-practice of unique password usage, the threat-vector, and how you can mitigate the risk |
| Sep. 2009 | Paper: ATM Skimming | An essay on the growing threat of ATM Skimming and how to protect your information |
| Feb. 2009 | Paper: Social Networking Threatens Business. | A review of a few of the security threats Social Networking sites pose on business networks. |
| Aug. 2008 | Paper: DNS Cache Pollution | An Overview of the DNS Cache Pollution vulnerability discovered by Dan Kaminsky |