On Wednesday, 11 March 2015, Russ Swift, Manager of information Security at a Financial Services SaaS company, will be presenting on Tools of the Professional Security Researcher and Methods to Bypass Password Authentication Protected by Active Directory.

Abstract

This presentation will go over the evolution of obtaining password hashes and will cover the specialized tools and methods of dumping Active Directory password hashes from a domain controller. It will also cover advanced methods of direct disk access to copy and manipulate system files.  The presentation will provide a historical overview of old attack methods, details around the latest methods and ideas for detecting these type of compromises and intrusions.

About the Speaker

Russ Swift is a security professional with over ten years of experience providing security engineering, penetration testing and consulting services to Fortune 100 companies within entertainment and finance industries. Russ has developed information security courseware for penetration testing for training companies and he is also a SANS curriculum advisor and researcher.  Russ’ expertise is in Microsoft Active Directory, wireless, antivirus evasion and penetration testing.

Meeting Info

Meetings are free and open to the public.

Please RSVP at the link below:
https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/33063

Pizza and networking:  6:30 PM
Presentation, Q&A:  7:00 PM

Location:
Richter Auditorium, Ahmanson Science Center
California Lutheran University
Thousand Oaks, CA  91360

Parking:  Do not park in the faculty/staff lots.  Free parking is available in the visitor lot at the corner of Olsen Road and Mountclef Boulevard.  Alternatively, CLU Public Safety has provided us with parking passes for on street parking.

Additional maps:  http://www.ieee-bv-cs.org/meetings/