An important meeting coming up. If you can afford to attend next Thursday, please do. While the speaker may not cover the most important material, this is an opportunity to gather with managers thinking about security, and that aspect could have enormous impact on our careers and the survival of our community.
I just finished reading Richard Clarke's "Cyber War". The U.S. is very vulnerable and close to defenseless against automated attack of interconnected SCADA systems running the electric grid, oil pipelines, and the net itself. While Gary's meeting is focused on corporate espionage, the same spying techniques can also be used for sabotage. ObLinux - while the book is mostly focused on the political stuff, Clarke does mention that China, by agreement, has the Windows source code. The US government, financial, and industrial organizations do not. So while the NSA is busily analyzing Linux for security problems, contributing to the patch stream, they aren't doing that for Windows. ObPLUG - a lot of us are unemployed. When companies wake up (hopefully /before/ they are wiped out by logic bombs) we will be overpaid, overworked, and overstressed. So spend your downtime learning about security and getting in good physical shape. Your community will need you! I don't mention this to be a scaremonger, especially not if it leads to conflict with China or other countries. We can be friends and partners. But the current situation - no defense, expensive development of cyber attack tools by the military - is an invitation to war. The hot kind, with megadeaths. Perhaps initiated by one crazy person, like world war 1. Proper cyber defense is a way to protect the world without harming anyone. Seat belts and defensive driving, not shooting at the other cars. Keith ----- Forwarded message from Gary Perman <[email protected]> ----- Is Cyber Espionage Penetrating Your Company? IEEE Technology Management Chapter presents Guest Speaker Noah Murphy, Senior Systems Engineer Stuxnet? Google and Operation Aurora? CyberSitter and ‘Green Dam?’ Have you heard of these industrial espionage cases? Maybe you should. Your intelligence is what they want and they are going to great lengths to obtain it. • Who are “THEY?”…It might surprise you. • What is the most important data you have? • Why does your IT need to understand your business? • What makes you and your company a target? • Gain inside information and views from the trenches. • Learn about layered security--in practice not just in theory. • Security is not just an IT problem--what Engineering needs to know. Date: February 16th, 2011 5:30 P.M. Registration table opens 5:30 – 6:00 P.M. Food and networking 6:00 – 7:30 P.M. Presentation and Q & A Location: Portland State Business Accelerator, SW Corbett & SW Meade, Portland, OR 97201. Mt. Hood Room, 2nd floor. Free Parking Seating is limited. RSVP strongly recommended. $10 IEEE members. $15 non-members. IEEE Sr. Members and IEEE Students- free Credit card register on-line: http://www.ieee-oregon.org right sidebar under Technology Management Chapter Register by email (cash/check at door) Contact: Chris Dennis, Registration Volunteer, 503-803-7627, [email protected] This event is sponsored by the IEEE - Oregon Technology Management Council Chapter About the Speaker: Noah Murphy, Senior Systems Engineer Noah V. Murphy is a top systems engineer (Firewall Architect (SGFWA), IPS Architect (SGIPSA)) with over ten years front line experience in large and small networks and application delivery. Having been in the Financial, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, and Health care industries he has saved companies millions of dollars in lost data, information and intellectual property. He currently works for ClearAccess Telecommunications and was a key systems engineer at US Digital, Nautilus and bank of America. For more information about this event or the Technology Management Chapter, contact Gary Perman, chair: 360-835-2205 [email protected] Also visit us on Linked-In http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2680832 SW Meade and SW Corbett, Portland, OR 97201 (See http://www.psba.pdx.edu/ for detailed directions.) NOTE: if using GPS or online mapping: use intersection of SW Corbett Ave and SW Meade St, Portland, OR 97201. The Technology management Chapter of IEEE is being Hosted by Portland State Business Accelerator. The PSBA is part of Portland State University to promote and incubate start-up technology companies in the Metro area. The PSBA primarily focuses on the industry clusters of Green Tech & Sustainability, IT & Software, and Biotech/Bioscience. Companies locating at the PSBA gain affordable space for offices and labs and a range of support services to help speed each company's time to market. http://www.psba.pdx.edu/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
