[SASAG] Seattle Snort User Group Meeting TOMORROW - Tuesday June 6 7:00 PM @ SSCC

[James Affeld]

--- James Affeld <jamesaffeld at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 6/6 Russ McRee will present a talk on
> Aanval, a console for Snort.  http://aanval.com
> 
> Aanval (www.aanval.com) is a console built to run as
> Snort console via a web browser. What Aanval offers
> that places it above and beyond ACID/BASE, is a
> plethora of functionality, including extensive query
> capacity, searching, and attractive reporting.
> 
> In an age of compliance, it is hugely beneficial to
> have the capacity to draw the majority of network
> security information from one platform. In our use
> of
> Aanval we gain much information about outbound
> traffic
> via the use of Bleeding Edge Snort signatures to
> capture both IM and spyware traffic, as well as
> policy
> violations.
> 
> My presentation will certainly evangelize Aanval,
> largely from a technical enduser perspective, most
> importantly as an information security professional.
> Included would be whitepaper content specifically
> geared to using Aanval for compliance measurement
> and
> policy enforcement.
> 
> Background
> Russ McRee is the Information Security Architect for
> Municipal Court of Seattle.   He most recently
> participated as a poster session presenter at the
> 8th
> International Symposium on Recent Advances in
> Intrusion Detection (RAID 2005) and participated as
> a
> panelist at the Seattle SecureWorld Expo. His
> article
> on implementing secure web application servers was
> published in the January 2006 issue of Sys Admin and
> is now an OWASP whitepaper.
> 
> Russ' prior infosec engagements include Seattle
> Police
> Department and Port of Seattle. As an advocate of a
> holistic approach to information security Russ'
> website is holisticinfosec.org.
> 
> RSVP at http://www.snort.org/registrations/rsvp.html
> 
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> https://lists.snort.org/mailman/listinfo/seattlesug
> 
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> Contact: jamesaffeld at yahoo.com
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