Virtualization & Cloud Computing Security Half Day Seminar-- Postscript/Presentation Downloads

The seminar was a huge success
Thanks to all who worked so hard to make this half day seminar successful! The presentations are uploaded!! Links can be found at the bottom of this post.

Registration is closed - we have reached capacity
Sponsored by the Austin Chapter of ISSA and ISACA. The State of Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) is an educational co-sponsor.

Location:
Commons Center - J. J. Pickle Campus
10100 Burnet Road,
Austin, TX 78758
Phone: 512-471-5898
Map: http://www.utexas.edu/commons/maps/

FREE PARKING at the Commons.
Meeting room is the Lil Tex Room.
12 noon (registration) to 5:30pm at the Commons Center
Limited seating

Registration:
This is a joint event between ISSA & ISACA.
ISACA is handling the registration and you need to register using the following link for the 1/2 day event:
http://www.isacaaustin.org/events/index.php?id=6,48,0,0,1,0&eid=64

No charge for members of ISSA – Austin and ISACA Austin who RSVP before June 22. $10 for members of other ISSA or ISACA chapters (such as the Alamo chapter of ISSA) and $20 for non-members or at the door (regardless if you are member or not).

Agenda:

12:00 - 1:00: Registration

1:00 - 1:10: Welcome: Heather Poggi-Mannis
1:10 - 1:30: Intro to Cloud Computing, Taxonomy and Virtualization : Vern Williams
1:30 - 2:00: Cloud Security Alliance - 15 Domains: Jeff Reich
2:00 - 3:00: Case Study: VMware (Rob Randell) and Temple Inland (Brian Engle)
3:00 - 3:15: Break (snacks and drinks provided. No outside drinks/snacks permitted per Common Center rules)
3:15 - 4:30: Cloud Computing Panel: Rich Mogull moderating with Josh Zachry from Rackspace, Donna McIntire from Google, Jim Rymarczyk from IBM and Phil Agcaoili from Dell.
4:30 – 5:30: Other Cloud Computing Considerations: Rich Mogull security editor of TidBits

Bios

Vern Williams: Vern Williams is a Senior Security Architect for Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) working actively in their cloud initiatives and the Director of Operations for ISSA International. His current research interests include identifying the essential security metrics that a company or organization's should gather in order to improve their security posture and mapping security controls into the Cloud Computing solutions to enable a robust and secure environment for applications.

Jeff Reich: Jeff Reich is a principal with FUDless, LLC and serves as the Chairperson of the South Texas Information Security Leadership Council. He is Founding Member and Section Author of the Cloud Security Alliance and is an Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Cyber Security and the Security and Privacy Incubator.

Rob Randell: Rob Randell is a Senior Security and Compliance Specialist at VMware with over 14 years experience in Security and IT. Rob’s current role is to advise VMware customers on security and compliance related aspects of virtualization as well as speak at different security and virtualization events around the country and on the web.

Brian Engle: Brian Engle is the CISO/Director of Information Security for Temple-Inland. Previous information security positions include Manager of Information Security Assurance for Guaranty Bank and Senior Information Security Analyst for Silicon Laboratories. Brian has implemented security programs from the ground up with a focus on delivering technical solutions in a secured manner to achieve an appropriate balance of risk and control aligned with an organization’s mission and strategy.

Josh Zachry: Josh currently serves as the Senior Security & Compliance Associate with Rackspace Hosting. He is primarily responsible for maintaining Rackspace’s Payment Card Industry (PCI) Service Provider program and for providing consulting services to Rackspace Hosting customers around the PCI DSS and general information security. Additionally, he works closely with The Rackspace Cloud to provide insight into potential Cloud offerings based on market trends and customer needs related to information security.

Donna McIntire: Donna McIntire is a Senior Sales Engineer with Google Enterprise. She has twenty years experience in various Information Technology/Security roles including AT&T Corporate Information Technology Services, IBT Technologies, Universal Solutions, Postini and now Google. Donna brings to the table the ability to explain the change that is required to adopt this new model and facilitates the customer's due diligence to determine their readiness.

Phil Agcaoili: (Director I) Senior Manager, Global Information Security Assurance & Security Consulting at Dell and a Council Member at Corporate Security Councils, Committees, and Boards. Phil recently won the 2009 Information Security Executive of the Year Central award and he is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance.

Jim Rymarczyk: IBM Fellow, Chief Virtualization Technologist, Systems & Technology Group, Dynamic Infrastructure Evangelist; IBM Academy of Technology member since 1991

Rich Mogull: Rich is the Security Editor of /TidBITS/, a monthly columnist for /Dark Reading/, and a frequent contributor to publications ranging from Information /Security
Magazine/ to /Macworld/. He is a frequent industry speaker at events including the RSA Security Conference and DefCon.

For further information, see the chapter website at www.austinissa.org.

Registration starts at 12:00pm, with the formal meeting starting at 1:00pm.

Drinks and snacks will be provided.