NUKSG – Northern UK Security Group

We are pleased to announce the next NUKSG Leeds Meeting -

Venue: Victoria Hotel (pub), Great George St., Leeds, LS1 3DL
Date: 19th March 2012
Time: 18:30

Title: Cyber Attack! – Incident Response and Forensics Best Practice
Speaker: Alistair Macrae, Investigations & Cyber Crime Defense Consultant EMEA

Synopsis:

Whether you’re battling an APT, trying to discover the impact of activity from a recently dismissed revengeful employee, or want to have complete visibility over what is going on in your network, only log data can provide invaluable insight into anomalous behavior, potential risks and imminent threats to your organisation.

In this session Alistair will give illustrate the processes required and value of log data in preparation and subsequent use in an Incident Response / Forensic Examination following a Cyber Attack or a data loss / security breach event.

Using real world use cases you will understand the processes and tools required and how only an integrated log management and SIEM platform can help with-

• Incident Response
• Forensic Requirements
• Investigative Steps
• Log Interpretation
• Preservation & Evidence Handling
• Advanced Correlation for Traceability

Alistair Macrae :

Specialist Risk & Investigations Manager with 15+ years of experience contributing to operational performance & security.
Alistair is uniquely skilled with proficiency in UK Law Enforcement & Civil Investigation methods, handling covert investigations in line with current UK law & policies. He has a record of high quality evidence gathering and management of Covert Human Intelligence Sources whilst keeping track of current RIPA. These in turn have led to successful high profile cases.

Alistair has been responsible for I.T & Network security for various large corporate clients with digital online presence. Penetration testing, security audits along with I.T. forensic as well as covert human investigations activities.

Alistair has conducted investigations of data theft, IP breaches, illegal communication interception, provided compliance assessments for clients within UK’s Critical National Infrastructure (UKCNI). He has also been a permanent onsite Cyber Security consultant at NATO as well as the European Council.

Alistair was Lead Investigator & Incident Response during Sony Corp
2010/2011 breaches

To secure your place at this event, please email nuksg-announce@nuksg.org

Hi we are in the process of getting the NUKSG 2012 show on the road, with new dates in the diary for the year. If you are interested in presenting at one of the meetings, let us know.

The offer is ;

40-50 minute slot to talk about a subject of interest to the security industry
Must not be a product pitch
Great way to meet a great set of people!

We are please to announce that the next NUKSG Manchester is coming up.

Date – Monday 17th October 2011
Time – 18.30
Venue – Waldorf hotel (pub), 12 Gore Street, Manchester, M1 3AQ

Presentation will be from Vernon Poole :

Vernon is Head of Business Consultancy responsible for Sapphire’s team of business consultants who deal with Information Governance and all best practice standards on Information Security Management and associated areas (ISO27000 series; IT Continuity Management; ITIL; COBIT; ValIT). Vernon is well respected in the Business Consultancy profession – holding senior positions on several professional bodies like ISACA & CIPFA. He now sits on ISACA’s new COBIT5 Taskforce developing ISACA’s new in depth approach to Information Governance. In January 2008, he gained the ISACA certification – CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT) which has led Vernon to being involved in many Information Governance assignments in UK. Vernon recently became a CRISC (Certified in Risk & Information Systems Control) professional.
Prior to joining Sapphire, Vernon was the UK/European Security Manager with Deloitte’s for over 7 years.

Please email nuksg-announce@nuksg.org to secure your place.

Thanks again to Sean O’Brien at DVV Solutions, our NUKSG Manchester sponsor.

We are please to announce that the next NUKSG Manchester is coming up.

Date – Monday 17th October 2011
Time – 18.30
Venue – Waldorf hotel (pub), 12 Gore Street, Manchester, M1 3AQ

Presentation will be from Vernon Poole :

Vernon is Head of Business Consultancy responsible for Sapphire’s team of business consultants who deal with Information Governance and all best practice standards on Information Security Management and associated areas (ISO27000 series; IT Continuity Management; ITIL; COBIT; ValIT). Vernon is well respected in the Business Consultancy profession – holding senior positions on several professional bodies like ISACA & CIPFA. He now sits on ISACA’s new COBIT5 Taskforce developing ISACA’s new in depth approach to Information Governance. In January 2008, he gained the ISACA certification – CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT) which has led Vernon to being involved in many Information Governance assignments in UK. Vernon recently became a CRISC (Certified in Risk & Information Systems Control) professional.
Prior to joining Sapphire, Vernon was the UK/European Security Manager with Deloitte’s for over 7 years.

Please email nuksg-announce@nuksg.org to secure your place.

Thanks again to Sean O’Brien at DVV Solutions, our NUKSG Manchester sponsor.

Northern UK Security Group: Next Meeting – Manchester, 13 June 2011‏
We are pleased to announce that the next meeting of the Northern SecurityGroup will be held as follows:

Date: 13 June 2011
Time: 18:30
Venue: Waldorf Hotel (pub), 12 Gore St., Manchester, M1 3AQ

Sean O’Brien and John Denneny will be discussing recruitment from the employer viewpoint.

We look forward to seeing you on the 13 June 2011.

Just to remind you that NUKSG Leeds will be meeting tonight at The Brewery Tap, Leeds from 18.30.

Tim Armit will talk about the Manchester wide BCM exercise and the weaknesses in BIA.

Email nuksg-announce@nuksg.org to secure your place.

We are very pleased to announce that Boxing Orange have kindly agreed to sponsor the NUKSG Leeds meetings.

Alongside our new Leeds venue (The Brewery Tap near the Station), Boxing Orange will help us ensure we are truly locally focused.

Phil Ineson says “Boxing Orange are looking forward to continuing the great work the guys have done to date, supporting the Leeds chapter of NUKSG. We hope to see you all at the next meeting 14th March.”

On behalf of all NUKSG members we thank Integralis for their amazing sponsorship previously.

Next Northern UK Security Group Meeting: 28th February 2011 In Manchester

Date: 28 February 2011
Time: 18:30

Venue: Waldorf hotel (pub), 12 Gore Street, Manchester, M1 3AQ
Talk: Social Engineering (Part 1) by Sharon Conheady

We are pleased to announce that the first NUKSG meeting of 2010 will take place in Manchester at the end of February.

Our guest speaker is confirmed as Sharon Conheady, Director at
FirstDefence Information Security, who will present on Social
Engineering. As you may recall, Sharon was due to present this talk in
Manchester early last year but we had to cancel the meeting due to bad weather.

She has since spoken at the Leeds meeting and was very well received, so we’ve asked her to come back to represent her talk in Manchester as originally planned, so lets hope we don’t have snow trouble again!

email nuksg-announce@nuksg.org to confirm attendance

Date: 22 November 2010
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Waldorf hotel (pub), 12 Gore Street, Manchester, M1 3AQ

Our theme for the evening will be around jobs in the IT Security sector.

Louise Harris and Nicci Lyons from Alderbridge Recruitment will talk
about the IT Security job market, how to get a job in this, preparing
your CV, and some interview tips.
This will be followed by Sean O’Brien of DVV Solutions talking about
recruitment from the employer perspective.

If you wish to attend, please email nuksg-announce@nuksg.org
We look forward to seeing you on the 22nd.

Thanks to Geoff Harris of Alderbridge for a great evening looking at the insider threat. Alongside a review of the White Hat Rally, I’m sure everyone enjoyed themselves at NUKSG Leeds. Next meeting will be Manchester on Monday 15th November 2010.