[H-ANNOUNCE] ISIG Brisbane: Forward notice - March panel session annoucement (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:40:42 +1000
From: Gary Gaskell <gary at gaskells.org>
To: qauug at auug.org.au
Subject: [QAUUG]FW: ISIG Brisbane: Forward notice - March panel session
    annoucement

Dear All,

Please find below the meeting annoucement for the March meeting of
ISIG's Brisbane chapter.

ISIG has organised a panel on the topic of, "Network penetration
testing". This topic was on the top of the list of meeting topics as
identified by you in the recent member survey.

Date:  Wednesday 5 March
Time:  5:15 for 5:30pm
Venue: Boeing Australia, Training Room, Ground Floor,  363 Adelaide St
(cnr Adelaide & Wharf St)
RSVP:  Monday 2 March to brisbane at isig.org.au

We'd like to encourage you to pass this email on to anyone you know that
is interested in information security. ISIG's objective is "To promote
wareness and understanding of Information Security issues in an
independant and unbiased manner." Non-members are welcomed free of
charge to ISIG activities. Non-members are encouraged to join ISIG after
attending two meetings (see www.isig.org.au for member benefits and
details).

The panelists are:

 Brad Mackenzie, Network Vulnerability team, ISS, USA
 Martin McEniery, Solicitor - Corporate Technology, Freehills
 Corporate/Government client - to be arranged.

Martin McEniery

Martin is a solicitor with Freehills in the Corporate Technology team in
the Brisbane office. He advises government bodies, critical
infrastructure providers, hospitals and biotechnology, IT, financial and
education sector organisations in relation to organisational  executive,
management and staff liabilities for IT security.  He is the legal
representative for and an executive member of the Queensland Government
e-Security Cluster, which is the largest IT security industry cluster in
the world outside the USA.

Martin has undertaken nationwide IT assessments, advised on compliance
programs, provided liability advices, lectured extensively throughout
Australia and written both in Australia and throughout South East Asia
on corporate liabilities and national and international regimes for IT
security and privacy

Brad MacKenzie
Brad MacKenzie has 9 years in the Information Security industry. After
completing a Bachelor of Science majoring in Microelectronics and
computing he completed graduate studies to attain a Graduate Diploma in
Computer Science (with Distinction) and a Master of Information
Technology. Postgraduate studies focused on Firewall technology and
architecture, as well as link security and authentication using emerging
PKI. Brad worked and studied in the Information Security Research Center
at the Queensland University of Technology. In this role he was lead
consultant for many security related projects for banks, government, and
business, as well as manager of the Secure Networks Laboratory and
teaching advanced Data Communications subjects. Brad then accepted a
position with a military contractor working on the Australian Army
Command and Control System. Brad.s primary function was Integration
Engineer for the Communications and Security subsystems. Working for
several years as a Senior UNIX Administrator, team lead, and security
architect in both Australia and the USA, Brad joined Internet Security
Systems (ISS) as a Senior Security Consultant. Brad then developed and
built the X-Force Penetration Test Practice for North America and was
the Director of the Penetration Test Team for 3 years. Brad is now based
in Brisbane and continues to act in a Management and Principle
Consultant role for the US team.



Regards,

Gary Gaskell
Ph 0438 603 307

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