JANET(UK) in conjunction with the JANET FE/HE community have organised the next JANET CSIRT Security Conference to be held on Thursday 10th November 2011 at One Wimpole Street, London, The Royal Society of Medicine building. Details of the event including the programme of speakers, and registration can be found on the JANET Events pages.

The security conferences have been very well supported and accepted by the community in the past and have been an excellent forum for exchange of ideas and of course the social networking that takes place in events such as these.

As in previous years there will be no charge for delegates to attend this event which means that while we make best endeavours to ensure that as much of the community as possible has a chance to attend there may have to be some restriction on numbers of delegates per institute attending depending on the response for places which will be restricted to 100 initially.

There will be two sessions focusing on security at this year’s Networkshop. First is a parallel session on Wednesday morning with talks on honeypots, intrusion detection and IPv6. It will be followed in the late afternoon by an informal group led Birds of a Feather session. At CSIRT we find these events particularly useful for finding out what issues concern our community right now. Bradley Freeman and James Davis from JANET CSIRT will be attending all three days of the conference so please say hello at any time.

• Wednesday 13th April 11:15 – 12:30, Session 2b Security, room N001
• Wednesday 13th April 17:45 – 18:30, Security Birds of a Feather session, room N002

Do you know how JANET CSIRT can help you? If you are responsible or play an active part within network security for your organisation then JANET CSIRT is there to assist you. The aim of the briefing is for delegates to:

• Gain an understanding of the role of JANET CSIRT
• Gain an understanding of how to interact with JANET CSIRT in relation to Security incidents
• Develop an understanding of the common security incidents across JANET

Attendance is free to members of the JANET community and will take place online, on the 7th April between 12.30 and 1.30pm. The briefing will be led by Bradley Freeman of JANET CSIRT and will include a presentation and plenty of time for your questions.

The briefing will be run in Adobe connect, in order to access the session you will require a web browser running adobe Flash 8 or later. There will be an opportunity to test the connection prior to the start of the event. To join this event, please complete our online registration form, confirmation and further details will be sent by email. Please be aware that places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

The 2010 JANET CSIRT Conference will be held on 20th October 2010 at One Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE. The event will include presentations from our community and cover a range of topics within computer and network security.

For further information visit the JANET Events page.

• 10:00 – 10:30 Registration and refreshments
• 10:30 Welcome – James Davis, JANET CSIRT
• 10:45 Incident Response & Legal Developments – Andrew Cormack, JANET(UK)
• 11:20 – 11:40 Refreshment Break
• 11:40 Boundaries of Responsibilities – Patrick Green, Warwick University
• 12:15 Password Facts & Fallacies – Simon Baker, Sec-1
• 12:50 – 13:50 Buffet Lunch
• 13:50 Information Security 2.0? – Tony Brookes, University of Derby
• 14:25 Use of Open VPN with IPTables – Bret Giddings, University of Essex
• 15:00 – 15:20 Refreshment Break
• 15:20 Effective use of SNORT on Large Networks – David Ford, OUCS
• 15:55 Wrap up and thanks – James Davis, JANET CSIRT

JANET(UK) in conjunction with the JANET community are currently planning the next JANET CSIRT Security Conference to be held in the latter half of October 2010 on a date and at a venue to be confirmed.

As in previous years there will be no charge for delegates to attend this event which means that while we will make best endeavours to ensure that as much of the community as possible has a chance to attend there may have to be some restriction on numbers of delegates per institute attending depending on the response for places which will be restricted to 100 initially.

We would appreciate hearing from members of the community with ideas for content or recommendations for speakers. We would also welcome volunteers from the community to present a security based or security topical talk/presentation to like minded members of the JANET community. The conferences tend to be a fairly short day to
allow delegates to travel to and from the venue, as far as possible, on the same day therefore it is usual to have a full program of short presentations with adequate breaks for networking and discussion. This does not exclude the odd longer presentation if an abridged version might lose its punch.

The security conferences have been very well supported and accepted by the community in the past and have been an excellent forum for exchange of ideas and of course the social networking that takes place in events
such as these.

Please forward any comments or suggestions directly to wally.jackson@ja.net.

A Security BoF is scheduled for the the first day of Networkshop 38, at 17:45 on the 30th. The nature of a BoF is that it should be an informal, ad-hoc, relaxed, group-led session. If anyone has any particular topics that they’d like to bring up, then it may be useful to let us know so that we can bring some ideas with us.

Some suggestions:

• Our recent automation of particular reports, is this useful? helpful? desirable?
• Experiences of dealing with the press and incident response
• Ideas for detecting malicious activity on JANET
• PGP key signing

I look forward to seeing you there.

There was a good selection of security, and security related talks at this year’s Networkshop; here’s an opportunity to help shape next year’s conference.

JANET(UK) is currently seeking input from the community on topic areas they would like to see covered at Networkshop 2010. The topics areas could include challenging areas, common issues/problems, work around ideas etc for networking or in the provision of application services.

Please could you send your suggestions to Rina Samani. Closing date for suggestions is Thursday 5th November 2009.