Security auditing using open source security tools
Nick Savvides 2007
Security Auditing is an important tool for any organisation to assess the security and risks of their environment. In this workshop, the Melbourne MSS team from VeriSign will cover the latest in open source security tools, including a hands on demonstration of the most common tools.
The audience will be shown how to use open source tools to identify the threats, issues and security problems that modern systems are faced with. Real life issues with web services, operating systems and network infrastructure will be demonstrated.
The audience will be challenged in the latter part of the workshop to apply the knowledge and tools they have been given to audit and exploit systems prepared by VeriSign.
Technical staff, such as systems administrators will benefit from the hands on activities while managers will gain an appreciation of the threats faced by their systems and the challenges of technical staff in mitigating these threats.
The session will be a fun and interactive insight into the normally hidden world of security auditing.
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.