Security Auditing & Hackathon

Nick Savvides 2006

The 2006 Hacking session is a 3 hour long workshop which will show you modern hacking techniques and tools and then provide the opportunity to test your hacking abilities in a hacking competition. The first half of the session will cover hacking techniques and tools with real time demonstrations, including bypassing firewalls, router ACLs and intrusion prevention systems. A detailed discussion of how to use these techniques and tools as well as how to mitigate them will be presented. Both Windows and Linux will be covered. The second half of the workshop will have everyone competing to hack several specifically built hosts using the techniques and tools demonstrated. This years session will be harder than last years and working knowledge of TCP/IP, switching, routing, firewalling and web services will be required.

About Nick Savvides

Nick Savvides is the Security Operations and Security Manager for VeriSign Australia. He is responsible for the operation of VeriSign's regional security operations centre (SOC) in Melbourne as well as the physical, electronic and personnel security for the region. His duties involve managing a team of security analysts servicing managed security services customers across the globe, acting as the escalation point for critical issues as well as ensuring that VeriSign operations follow best practice security guidelines and meet all VeriSign, ASIO T4 and Australian Federal Government Highly Protected requirements.

Nick brings over 10 years IT experience to VeriSign, with strong skills in security, Linux and high performance computing. Prior to joining VeriSign, Nick was IT Security Administrator at The University of Melbourne, where he managed the vulnerability assessment service responsible for performing security audits on University departments. Nick was also the primary IT security advisor with central IT at the University.