FIRSTCON Podcast

Episode 4 features Patrick Cain, resident research fellow with the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) and the President of The Cooper-Cain Group, Inc. in Boston, MA – a US-based computer and internet security consultancy. He's been associated with information security development and operations for over 25 years and drives the APWG's data collection and sharing initiatives. Martin and Chris talk to Patrick about his work with the APWG and his upcoming FIRST presentation, "Sharing Crime Data Across International Frontiers." Patrick presents on Tuesday, 19th June at 17:05 in the Policy & Management track.

Join the interview in progress... Wes is a security engineer, threat analyst and (primary) code-monkey with the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC). He is the primary architect of the REN-ISAC Security Event System – a standard based information system that moves security intelligence messages throughout its diverse academic community. Wes presents on Friday at 14:25 under the Deep Technical Dives track – "Sharing data's hard, here's how we did it."

Martin and Chris chat with Lance Spitzner, FIRST 2012 Keynote and Training Director for SANS Securing the Human Program at the SANS Institute. Lance is an internationally recognized leader in the field of cyber threat research and security training awareness. He has helped develop and implement numerous multi-cultural security awareness programs around the world. He's passionate about security awareness and the importance of understanding the human element. Don't miss Lance's keynote on Friday the 22nd at 09:45 in the Grandmaster Suite.

Here we go! Kicking off the 24th Annual FIRST Conference podcast series, Martin McKeay and Chris John Riley talk to Dr. Jose Nazario, Senior Researcher at Arbor Networks and the 2012 Conference Program Chair. Learn how Jose got involved, his experience within the FIRST community and how this year's program agenda came together. Gain insight on this year's keynote presentations, plenaries, highlight sessions, and the overall uniqueness that defines FIRST as a premier global organization.

Patrick Gray is the Principal Security Strategist at Cisco Systems as well as a 20+ year veteran of the US Federal Bureau of Investigations. Patrick speaks to Martin post-presentation, "Data Security Challenges in the all too Public and not so Private Sectors" and extends on topics such as social media usage, the importance of education to the user community and how Patrick went from police officer-to-FBI agent-to-Security Strategist at Cisco. Patrick presented on Tuesday, June 14, 2011.

Martin chats with member of the FIRST Steering Committee and integral part of the 2011 conference planning team, Robert Schischka. Robert is head of CERT.at and has been an active member of FIRST for several years. Robert and Martin touch on several topics including the 2011 conference city selection, the process of establishing new FIRST teams and the importance of data sharing within the community.

Jeffrey Carpenter, Technical Manager at CERT/CC, integral member and supporter of FIRST talks to Chris John Riley about the evolution of CSIRTs as well as the importance of networking among the international CSIRT communities. Jeff also talks briefly about the Annual National CSIRT meeting that is held post-FIRST conference.

Brian Krebs, freelance tech reporter, editor of KrebsOnSecurity.com and straight from the stage, takes time out in Vienna to speak to both Martin McKeay and Chris John Riley about his rogue-pharma-spam-focused presentation at FIRST 2011, "Funny Pharma: Inside the Web's Leading Rogue Pharmacies." Brian presented at FIRST 2011 Vienna on Tuesday, June 14, 2011.

Straight from the stage to the FIRST2011 press room, Martin McKeay and Melissa Hathaway expand on her keynote presentation and discuss global security challenges of 2011. What can government do; what can the private sector do? How do we faciliate better communication/interoperability? "[FIRST], the community is the master translator between the private sector where the technology is going, the civilian infrastructure of how to conduct homeland security or critical infrastructure protection...and can also act as security advisor to the ministries of defense." Melissa presented on Monday, 13th June at the 23rd Annual FIRST Conference, Vienna.

Frank Breedijk and Ian Southam talk to Chris John Riley about their upcoming presentation, "The road to hell is paved with best practices." Do you achieve compliance through security or security through compliance? Frank and Ian are both mission critical engineers with Schuberg Philis. See their presentation on Friday, 17 June 2011 at 1330 in the Rock Track.