[TriLUG] NC*SA Monthly Meeting and Election (Today) Title=If Kubler-Ross Were Handling Vulnerabilities

[Liyun Yu]

The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators 
organization (NC*SA)
> is Today, December 10th, 2007. Details about the meeting are
> provided in this note. It is also the time for the NC*SA Steer 
> Committee (SC)
> Election. NC*SA SC has vacancies waiting for you :-)
> We hope to see you there!
>
>                 NC*SA General Meeting
>           7:00 pm Monday, December 10th, 2007
>                   MCNC, Building #3
>               Research Triangle Park, NC
>    *** Note that meetings are no longer held at RTI ***
>
> Topic: If Kubler-Ross Were Handling Vulnerabilities
> Speaker: James N. Duncan, CISSP, BB&T
> Affiliation: BB&T Corporation (Branch Banking and Trust Company)
> Free Pizza Dinner at around 8pm.
>
> Gold Sponsors:  
> NetApp - http://www.netapp.com
> Crossover Lending Group - http://www.crossoverlending.com
> IBM - http://www.ibm.com
>
> Silver Sponsors:    
> MCNC - http://www.mcnc.org
> TriLUG - http://www.trilug.org
>
> ==
>
> Title: If Kubler-Ross Were Handling Vulnerabilities
>
> Abstract: In her groundbreaking work, _On Death and Dying_, and
> her Ph.D. research preceding the book's publication, Dr. Elisabeth
> Kubler-Ross developed "The Five Stages of Grief" to describe the
> five unique stages experienced by a person facing a terminal
> diagnosis.  For dealing with imminent death alone, this seminal
> work transformed grief counseling in health care and allied
> disciplines.  It has broader applicability to many other similar
> situations, basically any event in which traumatic outcomes are
> presented.  The speaker will apply the Five Stages to product
> security incidents with explanations and examples based on real
> events.  The suggestions can be easily expanded to any other type
> of cyber security event or response to a disaster, indeed, to any
> interaction in the workplace.  Attendees will leave the session with
> one more tool in the sysadmin toolbox for handling incidents and upset
> users more quickly and effectively.
>
> Estimated time: 30-50 minutes (flexible)
>
> ==
>
> Bio: James N. Duncan, CISSP, is the Cyber Security Incident Response Team
> Coordinator for BB&T Corporation, currently the 11th largest domestic 
> financial
> holding company in the United States.  His constituency extends over 
> 34 subsidiaries
> and nearly 30,000 employees in eleven states providing nearly every 
> imaginable
> financial service from traditional banking, wealth management, and 
> investments,
> to insurance, payroll management, software development, and ASPs for 
> other
> financial services companies.  The bank's web presence, bbt.com, has 
> received
> numerous awards for excellence in on-line banking.
>
> Previously, Jim Duncan worked at Cisco Systems where he provided 
> incident response
> team support within the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Group, 
> acting as technical liaison
> for various ISACs and government agencies (US and others), and was the 
> team lead
> for the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team, handling 
> vulnerabilities in
> Cisco products from initial report to final composition and 
> publication of a security
> advisory.  Prior to that, he was employed as network engineer and 
> principal systems
> administrator in various departments at the Pennsylvania State 
> University.
>
> In between, Mr. Duncan developed one of the first tutorials
> focusing on developing incident response teams way back in 1996 (with Rik
> Farrow for the USENIX Association), has been a candidate for SAGE and
> USENIX Boards, participated on multiple USENIX Program Committees
> (including as Program Chair), served a two-year term on the Steering
> Committee/Board of Directors of the Forum of Incident Response and 
> Security
> Teams, and became an approved TRANSITS instructor, teaching several
> TRANSITS classes around the globe.
>
> Jim is also a soccer referee, certified by the United States
> Soccer Federation, US Indoor Soccer, and the North Carolina
> High School Athletic Association, and has officiated many
> hundreds of matches in the last four years.
>
> He is in wide demand on multiple continents as a speaker and
> instructor (and referee).
>
> =======================================================================
>
> Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
> of the evening and/or system administration.  We will be providing food
> and drink for the evening. If you have any questions please contact the
> Steering Committee at:
>
> ncsa-steer at ncsysadmin.org
>
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>
> Directions to the meeting are available on the web at
> http://www.ncsysadmin.org/directions.
>