ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) is an international organisation that, among many others things, helps information security practitioners (probably very much like yourself) to learn, to share knowledge, to communicate with their peers and, above all, to expand their horizons. One of the events that facilitate all the above are monthly meetings that feature presentations, lectures, discussions, etc. As you can imagine, such meetings make up an excellent opportunity to broaden and deepen your knowledge and to meet up with other security people from your area.

And here comes a good news for all of you located near Wrocław area in Poland – we are going to have monthly ISSA Polska meetings in Wrocław very soon. All is just being buttoned up, so you can expect the exact news regarding a place and date any time now.

Be sure to come and bring all your IT-Sec friends with you! The more of us meets up, the more knowledge and experience there is to share. The meetings are going to be open for anyone, so stay tuned and see you there soon!

If you’re from Wroclaw or from nearby, be sure to show up at the first meeting of ISSA Polska held in Wroclaw. We’ll be talking about web application security, analysing case studies of vulnerable web applications and arguing which web application firewall is the best. Sounds like fun? Don’t miss the meeting!

When? Jan 9, 2008 at 6pm.

Where? At BZ WBK Wroclaw HQ, Rynek 9/11 (second door if you look from the pl. Solny direction).

An important note: you need to register for the meeting before Jan 6, 2008, 9pm at the latest. In order to register, please use the following link.

Successful beyond every expectation, the first ISSA meeting in Wroclaw is behind us already. 33 people came, the meeting went for three hours and there were three talks given (slides are at the end of this post).

A big thanks goes to BZ WBK for hosting our meeting and to all those without whose help the meeting wouldn’t have happened. Also, special thanks to Patryk Gęborys, President of ISSA Polska for coming from far Warsaw just to be at the meeting and, of course, to all of you guys, who were with us.

See you in a month! And in the meantime help yourselves to the slides below.

Cheers!

I’ve just translated the slides that I used during the talk about web security that I gave together with Borys Łącki at the first ISSA Polska meeting in Wrocław into English.

Have fun!

After an indubitable success of the first ISSA Polska meeting in Wroclaw I’d like to invite you to the secondo one. This time the topic will be Two Factor Authentication. As kind of an innovation, we’ll be having a discussion panel after a series of short talks.

And as another innovation, we’re planning to squeeze the whole meeting into two hours, so that we'll have more time for the after-party.

Hope to see you at the meeting!

When? Feb 12, 2008 at 6pm.

Where? At BZ WBK Wroclaw HQ, Rynek 9/11 (second door if you look from the pl. Solny direction).

An important note: you need to register for the meeting before Feb 4, 2008, 9pm at the latest. In order to register, please use the following link.

We did it again! About 30 people came to the second ISSA meeting in Wroclaw (thank you guys!), we had two talks and a really nice discussion afterwards. And this time we even had a full-blown catering! :) A big thanks goes to BZ WBK for hosting the meeting again and to ISSA Polska for sponsoring coffee and the snacks for the meeting.

It was really nice meeting all of you guys! Thanks a lot and hope to see you next month!

And for all of you who didn’t make it to the meeting, here are the slides.

Let me invite you to another ISSA meeting in Wroclaw. It’s the third meeting already and this time we’ll be discussing Computer Forensics and Incident Response. We’ll be having a discussion panel as the last time and we’ll let you guys win some prizes in a competition.

All that and even more on Mar 11, 2008 at 6pm.

Where? At BZ WBK Wroclaw HQ, Rynek 9/11 (second door if you look from the pl. Solny direction). At Politechnika Wroclawska, Janiszewskiego 11/17, building C3, room 118 (enter either through building C-1 or C-5).

An important note: you need to register for the meeting before Feb 4, 2008, 9pm at the latest. In order to register, please use the following link.

UPDATE: This time we meet at Politechnika Wroclawska, Janiszewskiego 11/17, building C3, room 118 (enter either through building C-1 or C-5).

Thank you! Thanks to all of you who made it to the meeting despite the fact that we have changed the location twice. And my apologies to all of you, who didn’t. We will do our best to make sure it doesn’t happen anymore.

Despite all the trouble, the meeting was fun. We totally run out of schedule due to discussions that broke out during the first talk. Oh, and the cookies were awesome! Not to mention the coffee.

We have one piece of slides this time, so, for all of you who would like to go through the presentation again and for others that didn’t make it to the meeting, here it is.

Thanks again and see you next month!

It's been hands-on and it's been fun! :) Huge thanks goes to Edi Weinert and Tadeusz Kowalczyk who put all this together and made the whole thing possible. And of course thanks to you all! I hope you enjoyed the workshop and we'd really love to hear your comments on what we could do better next time.

Hope to see you next time! And in the meantime, be sure to click at the photo for more geeky shots.

Thank you all once again!

We're gonna do it for the fifth time already! Whooohoo! :)

This time the main theme will be Intrusion Detection Systems and Web Application Firewalls. Also a discussion panel is planned so that we all could shout at each other and throw blunt objects in each other’s general directions.
Here is the agenda:

1. A warm welcome (myself)
2. Intrusion Detection Systems (Wojtek Wirkijowski)
3. Web Application Firewalls (Edward Weinert)
4. Discussion Panel (Andrzej Piotr Kleśnicki)

And as always, there is a prize to be won.

See you at the meeting!

I haven't posted in ages! I've even managed to forget the MT backend script name (not to mention I've lost my bookmarks somewhere down the road). But I'm back! Unfortunately I'm still busy as... well... as someone very busy, so I'll keep it short this time.

To the point: if you're from Wrocław area or if you happen to be around on July 3, be sure to come to the ISSA Polska meeting in Wrocław. We plan the meeting to be real fun this time. We'll be having a guest from Credit Suisse IT Risk dept. giving a talk. We also plan to discuss latest incidents in Poland.

When: July 3, 6PM

Where: Credit Suisse, Kameleon building at Szewska st., 1st. floor

See you there!

Since the meeting didn’t work out the last time due to some unexpected circumstances, please let me invite you to the event again. The agenda stays the same.

When: July 23, 6PM

Where: Credit Suisse, Kameleon building at Szewska st., 1st. floor

See you at the meeting!

[UPDATE: If you are planning to come to the meeting, we will need your name in order for security to let you into the building. So, please send us an email with a subject "[ISSA] Potwierdzenie udziału w spotkaniu - Wroclaw 2008-09-23" to wroclaw at issa.org.pl

Be sure to actually include your name!]

I’m happy to invite you to this month’s ISSA meeting on September 23. We'll be talking about security policies and, more on the technical side, about DNS cache poisoning.

When: September 23, 6:30 PM

Where: Credit Suisse, Grunwaldzki Center building B, fourth floor, Grunwaldzki Square 25, Wrocław

Agenda:
1. Welcome after summer - Michał Sobiegraj
2. Development and Deployment of Security Policies - Radek Michalski
3. DNS Cache Poisoning (recent update) - Jarek Sajko

We plan to end the official part of the meeting around 8:30.

See you!