Yesterday I attended the monthly ISACA Belgium chapter meeting. The topic was “The influence of national cultures on IT governance“. This very interesting question was the purpose of a paper published by Prof. A.J. Gilbert Silvius. The second presentation was performed by Layla El Kastite. She presented her thesis on
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May 2011 OWASP/ISSA Belgium Meeting Wrap-up
Tonight was held a joined OWASP and ISSA Belgium Chapters meeting with three speakers. Very interesting content, here is a small wrap-up in “bullet-point” mode due to a lack of free time… First speaker, Tom Van Der Mussele from Verizon Business spoke about the “non-conventional attacks“. Tom explained that those
InfoSecurity.be
Just after BlackHat Europe, InfoSecurity Belgium was organized in Brussels this week. Something completely different: other atmosphere, other people, business oriented. It is the place to be for Belgian people working in information security. To make a rough comparison, suits and ties are at InfoSecurity what t-shirts are at BlackHat.
My FOSDEM Yearly Visit
This weekend is the FOSDEM event held in Brussels. This is a major event for the open source software landscape in Europe. Thousands of geeks coming from several countries to discuss about software freedom during a full two-days planning. All major projects are represented, core-developers are present and always available
Use your Logs to Detect Fraud
I was invited by the ISSA Belgium chapter to talk last night about log management & SIEM (“Security Information and Event Management“). This is a very interesting topic but almost everything has been said (good as bad) on SIEM. I decided to innovate and to use some articles posted in
OWASP BE Meeting about SQL Injections’ OR 2=2;
Surprise! The OWASP Belgian Chapter sent a late notification to announce an extra chapter meeting with a special guest: Joe McCray from Learn Security Online. Today’ topic was “Advanced SQL injections“. Joe is a well known security specialist with high skills in penetration tests. He was in Belgium to provide
OWASP Belgium Chapter Meeting Wrap Up
I’m back from the latest OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting. Belgium is a small country with lot of political issues (off-topic here 😉 ) but also a great electronic identify card or “eID“. Almost all Belgian citizens have an eID for a while (8.2 millions of cards have been delivered up
ISACA-BE Round Table: the Impact of Cloud Computing
“Cloud computing”… A buzz word for a while now! It’s a fact that security professionals will face, one day or another, a situation where the company applications and data will be hosted “in the cloud” and whatever your activity is! (auditor, system admin, investigator, etc). This evening, the ISACA Belgium
Security Training Again and Again!
If you are working in the “IT security” field, you must keep your knowledge up to the highest level. It’s a matter of “live or death” and continuous training is mandatory. That’s why big names in the certification world like ISC² or ISACA impose their members to collect a minimum
ISSA-Be Chapter Wrap Up: Cybercrime
I’m back from the last ISSA-Be meeting held in the Verizon offices in Leuven. Today’s topic was “Cybercrime: The actors, their actions, and what they’re after“. The speaker was Matthijs van der Wel, EMEA, manager of Verizon Business’ Forensics practice, who contributed to the Data Breach Investigation Report. The talk