Ruxcon

Details

When	Friday 21st February 2014
Where	Google Sydney, 5/48 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont
Time	6:00 PM
After Talks	Pyrmont Bridge Hotel, 96 Union Street
Organisers	Berne, Meder, Brendan
Contact	sydney@ruxmon.com
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Location

The Google office is located within the Accenture building at 5/48 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont The Google office is a short walk from the Star City Metro Light Rail stop. Atendees should either walk up to level 5 or take elevator. There will be a registration desk where name-tags will be handed out (please note the registration requirement above) to attendees.

Presentations

Introduction to Cryptocurrency - Kitten

Level: Beginner

This talk describes the Bitcoin protocol in detail followed by a brief overview of other current cryptocurrency projects.

Bio

Kitten is a recent UNSW graduate and CTF player.

Watching Traffic - Ian Farquhar

Level: Beginner

Network security has moved beyond policy driven firewalls and signature based IDS on the edge, but now pervades the organization where network traffic is delivered to tools which use analytics and data feeds to detect attack. But modern networks are more than just copper RJ45 running 1G, even though this is what most enterprise security engineers are most familiar with. 10G, 40G and 100G networks are in place or being deployed. SPAN ports aren’t keeping up with traffic, and network teams worry about the production packet loss they can cause under load. Network taps are becoming common, but are a new technology to many people, with their own considerations.

The purpose of this session is to provide a high level overview of current and upcoming enterprise network technologies, specifically in relation to how to gain non-disruptive visibility of the traffic passing across them. This presentation will be vendor neutral, and cover the technologies alone.

• Overview of Ethernet technologies: from PARC to 10M to 100G
• Copper vs. Fibre
• Network TAPs – how they work, passive vs. active
• When to SPAN, when to TAP

Bio

Ian Farquhar currently works for Gigamon, where he advises customers on network visibility technologies.  Prior to that he spent five years at RSA both as a DLP sales specialist, as well as doing R&D into hardware security technologies as part of an international research team for the RSA Office of the CTO.  Between 2004 and 2008 he worked at Cisco, and prior to that, as a network security engineer for Sun Microsystems, where amongst other things he wrote the security policy documents used by the company worldwide.  From 1994 to 1999 he worked at SGI/Cray doing security and supercomputer work.  He was a contributor to early development of wireless LAN technologies at the Macquarie University Department of Research Electronics in 1994, in research funded by CSIRO and IBM

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