—< NORTHEAST OHIO INFORMATION SECURITY FORUM MEETING
—< Wednesday February 21, 2018
—< 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
—< Pizza and social start 6:00 PM
—< Location: OEC at 4205 Highlander Pkwy Richfield, OH 44286
—< Open to everyone and free as always
The Northeast Ohio Information Security Forum will hold our monthly meeting at the above date and time.
Agenda:
SQL Server 2016 Security Features
by: Sam Nasr
SQL Server 2016 provides several new security features for developers and architects. Features such as Dynamic Data Masking (DDM), “Always Encrypted”, and Row-Level Security provide an additional level of security nativity through the database server. We’ll explore the implementation of these features on the client/server for data in transmission or at rest. In addition, we’ll examine built-in features and custom implementations.
Bio:
Sam Nasr has been a software developer since 1995, focusing mostly on Microsoft technologies. Having achieved multiple certifications from Microsoft (MCSA, MCAD, MCTS, and MCT), Sam develops, teaches, and tours the country to present various topics in .Net. He’s involved with the Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group, where he has been the group leader since 2003. In addition, he’s the leader of the .Net Study Group, an author for Visual Studio Magazine, and a Microsoft MVP since 2013. When not coding, Sam loves spending time with his family and friends or volunteering at his local church.
Interdisciplinary Infosec: Equifax, Individuation, and the Modern State
by: Tom
Interdisciplinary methodologies center around the use of information and methods drawn from a variety of fields of study, regardless of the field itself, to form a narrative of events. In this approach the focus becomes varied with the goal of developing an analysis which is not confined to the arbitrary limitations of fields or disciplines and which can provide additional insights above and beyond those that can come from any one field of study.
Within the information security community we find a wide diversity of people from different backgrounds, many of which are not technical. Yet, for as diverse as we are as a community analysis in the community tends to be confined to the purely technical, with the result being prescriptive technical solutions. When analysis does leave this space, and veers into political or social analysis, it tends to be confined to an immediate analysis of the effects of a specific technology or event. In limiting ourselves to this sort of technical analysis we are often missing the wider context, that which exists off of the screen, which could inform our understanding of events and approaches to remediation.
In this talk we will discuss interdisciplinary approaches and how, in the case of the Equifax breach, this sort of approach can form the foundations of a different sort of analysis, one which resists purely technical explanations and solutions. Through this interdisciplinary analysis, we will discuss the ways in which the Equifax breach, along with OPM and other massive, PII-centric, breaches impact some of the foundational structures of everyday life.
Lighting Round Talks
If you are interested in speaking send an email to board@neoisf.org and we can help you write your talk.
Don’t forget to come early, starting at 6:00 PM, for food and soda.
Another great meeting from NEO Info Sec Forum – we hope to see you there!
– NEOISF Board –
