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Home  What's New -- Last Updated 3/5/2010
WELCOME to Greater New Orleans ISACA, Winner of the 2009 K WAYNE SNIPES AWARD!
We are THE place to go for Information Technology (IT) security, information assurance and IT governance in the New Orleans area. We provide free monthly talks on current IT topics to raise knowledge and awareness. Volunteering helps your career, builds a structure to meet people based on a common goal and means we can give back more to our rebuilding community. Come join the best in the world!
The March meeting presented by Matt Luallen of Encari Inc, was excellent. Matt was an engaging speaker (receiving the highest rating by attendees of any speaker we've had in two years (4.98 out of 5!). Physical security and cyber security are no longer separate disciplines. Technology has infiltrated too many aspects of our lives. Many devices are controlled by computer chips that have no security built into them.Heart pumps are controlled by wireless signals instead of mechanical ones, automobiles communicate wirelessly with no security. It's only a matter of time before someone learns to "hijack" the communication and control those devices remotely. Meters for electric/gas/water are read remotely over the internet leading to the possibility of "denial of service" of not just one household as a manual attack would affect, but to entire neighborhoods or cities at a time. Matt was a terrific speaker and the topic new and fascinating. His slides will be posted shortly.
ALERT ! As of Wednesday March 3 A major vendor of online advertising has been compromised and or socially engineered. Ads being served out of legitimate websites such as MSN, Foxsports etc. are distributing FakeAV malware from the legitmate sites that use the vendor and infecting clients with outdated Java and Adobe PDF add-ons. This has been reported since before 2010-02-15 and was reported today to the SANS Internet Storm center and to US CERT. Fixes will be blocking the (so far 248) malicious sites. List of the 248 sites to block is at bottom of this page. For your organization, identify clients with old versions and update Java and Adobe PDF plugins.
See below for upcoming events from Baton Rouge ISACA and New Orleans IIA!
October Cyber Security Month: We will also be sponsoring events for the first annual Cyber Security Month which is in October. Please help us develop and present educational events to help our citizens learn to protect their computers, their finances, their identies and children to stay safe online! Come get involved! Build your career! Make friends! Help our community!
Come to meetings and get to know some really interesting people! Meetings are at lunchtime, they are free (bring your own lunch), easily accessible off of I-10 and parking is free!
Lydia Lourbacos President GNO ISACA as the Co-Chair Infragard Cyber Security SIG
************GNO ISACA APRIL MEETING**************
TOPIC: "Taking Control of Your User Accounts"
SPEAKER: Dustin Puryear, Baton Rouge Puryear Inc.
WHOM SHOULD ATTEND: 1st hour for Directors and CIOs looking for greater control over cost/security and subsequent 2hr tutorial for security/sysadmins and auditors.
DATE: Thursday April 8, 2010
TIME: 12:00pm - 3:00pm (3 CPE) (bring your lunch)
COST: No charge RSVP required
LOCATION: East Jefferson Regional LIbrary, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave, Metarie 70001
RSVP: Please RSVP to president@isaca-nola.org by Wednesday April 7 if you will attend
SUMMARY:
**************** MAY 2010 Annual General Meeting *************************
Board Elections: The slate of candidates is:
President: Lydia Lourbacos
Vice President: John Pouey
Secretary: Jeffrey Wagar
Treasurer: Anna Odenthal
Please help ISACA researchers by filling out these questionaires:
1. Karen Quagliata (member of St Louis, MO chapter and doctoral student at University of Fairfax) (10-15 min): Survey on Critical Components of Information Security: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QDWSJV6
March 24, Wednesday 11:30am-1:00pm "Managing 3rd Party Application Security Risk" by Erik Peterson, Sullivans Steakhouse more info
April 8, Thursday -- GNO ISACA Monthly Meeting: "Taking Control of Your User Accounts" by Dustin Puryear. 1st hour for Directors and CIOs looking for greater control over cost/security and subsequent 2 jr tutoral for security/sysadmins.
April 16, Friday --IIA New Orleans Seminar "Today's Internal Audit Leader; Conflict Resolution and Problem Solving" with speaker Ed Robinson. 8am-5pm 8 CPE $125 IIA members $150 non-members http://isaca-nola.org/files/IIAApril.pdf
April 23-25: Tiger Trap http://tigertrap.org for more information. This is a capture the flag exercise sponsored by Baton Rouge Infragard and BR ISACA.
April 27, Tuesday -- IIA/ISACA Baton Rouge present: Practical Stats: Statistical Sampling for Auditors 8:30-4:30 at BCBS Mail Campus $125 Link to more information at http://isaca-nola.org
May 13: Annual General Meeting (board election) Please consider volunteering for a position on the board!
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See this link for the Nov 24, 6pm WWL-TV news story on spear phishing and ACH Fraud http://www.wwltv.com/news/Hackers-Go-Spear-Phising-72999427.html
FROM SATURDAY 9/26/09: PODCAST-Excelling with Liz: Online Bank Fraud:http://lizreyes.com/?page_id=2 WGSO 990am 1pm. Click Infragard Cyber Security SIG Announcements link at left for detailed suggestions mentioned on the show.
Also see ABC26 10pm News October 21 for ISACA/Infragard interview about online banking fraud.
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