Seattle University, Engineering Building, Room 304
6/1/2009
6:00pm to 8:00pm
On-line registration is now closed, please register on-site. DISCUSSION ABSTRACT: Doing business in the face of capable adversaries is a reality! Attack techniques that a decade ago was the province of nation states and intelligence agencies, are now readily available to loosely affiliated bands of criminals –modern Barbary Pirates that will, like their predecessors of the past, impede commerce and exact a price. Last month, the world’s largest bank was bilked (temporarily) out of $27 million dollars by what amounted to a 419 scam. In November, 2009, in the single most audacious computer crime to date, a band of coordinated attackers spread throughout the world robbed RBS of $9.2 million dollars in currency. The adversaries businesses face are organized and synchronize their operations worldwide using the same infrastructure that makes modern commerce possible. And that is the good news. The bad news: They’re smart, smarter than your IT staff, smarter than the overworked agents at the U.S. Treasury and FBI, and most troubling; they’re getting smarter every day. Our industry has evolved from “talking” about attacks, to “thinking” about threats. As an industry facing capable, coordinated adversaries, we must move to the next level: Risk Mitigation. PRESENTER:
Mr. Frank Heidt, CEO, Leviathan Security, Seattle, WA Mr. Frank Heidt is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Leviathan Security Group, Inc. Mr. Heidt is a recognized expert in the field of information assurance, network security, and systems penetration. Mr. Heidt is a frequent presenter on IT security, and has been a Visiting Lecturer at the United States Army War College, United States Navy War College and the Naval Post Graduate School Monterey, on the subject of defensive information warfare, and military computer systems security. |
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