August 18, 2015, meetup agenda - Blue Team Starter Kit

Next week, I will be presenting my Blue Team Starter Kit talk, in preparation for my presentation of the talk at BSides Augusta, September 12, 2015, and DerbyCon, September 25-27.

The talk is focused on low cost tools for Blue Teams. The tools I plan to cover in the talk include:

• Google/Twitter
• OWASP Zed Attack Proxy
• Mandiant Redline
• Microsoft EMET
• Admin Arsenal PDQ Deploy

These are tools I've found to be effective and accomplishing specific challenges given to me by management. And the best thing is that all of them are easy to use and free (PDQ Deploy enterprise is $500).

Also, we will discuss IT-ology Trends 2015 event at the meetup.

July 21, 2015, meetup wrapup - OSSEC in the house!

At this weeks meeting we discussed the following news items:

Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data - Steve Ragan - CSO Online

Flash. Must. Die - Brian Barrett - WIRED

OpenSSL patches critical certificate validation vulnerability - Michael Mimoso - Threatpost

And because it just came out the same day we also discussed the freshly new hacked Jeep news.

Hackers remotely kill a jeep on the highway -- with me in it - Andy Greenberg - WIRED

After the news, Robert Wilson gave an excellent talk on OSSEC. He showed us how to both set it up and use it to monitor for abnormal activity. It's really interesting stuff and only requires, as Robert put it, "nerd power" to get it up and running. Here are some links to get started with it:

Main OSSEC site

OSSEC on GitHub

Daniel Cid's OSSEC architecture presentation

OSSEC CON presentations

Vic Hargrave's ELK and OSSEC overview (somewhat outdated)

NSA Guidance on spotting the adversary

IAD GitHub

Thanks again to Robert for stepping up giving us an excellent presentation for our July meetup. It was very informative and fun as always hanging out with other infosec folks.

Our next meetup will be August 18. I will be presenting my Blue Team Starter Kit talk which I intend to use at BSides Augusta, September 12.