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UPDATE: Please see this link for the most current agenda. The one in the post is outdated: http://sintixerr.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/cyber-program_1020.pdf
So, one of the things I get to do as part of my job which has been pretty exciting is to put together the agenda for our 2nd annual Cyber Security in Transportation summit. It’s happening November 1 & 2 this year in the DC area and is going to be full of outstanding talks for all ages and backgrounds. ;) The summit is aimed at executives and decision makers from within the transportation industry who might be effected by cyber security or whos actions may affect the security of their organizations. We’re covering general cyber security themes as well as transportation specific ones. If you’re in the transportation sector – pipeline, aviation, freight rail, mass transit, highway & motor carrier – and want to attend, let me know at sintixerr@gmail.com.
The tentative agenda currently looks like this:
Summit Schedule (Click for Larger)
AGENDA DESCRIPTIONS
Industry Case Studies
Four discussions of transportation-specific cyber security concerns and perspectives: Incidents, Best Practices that worked, Lessons Learned, Soap Box Scenarios , etc.
Public/Private Partnership
Sector Collaboration
Based on outcomes of this summer’s Transportation Cyber Security Exercise
Panel: Maritime
Representatives of the Maritime mode will discuss topics of common interest
TBD DHS
General Cyber Security Awareness Talks & Panels
Panel: Offensive Perspectives
Non-technical perspectives from well-known offensive researchers
Panel: Threats in the News
Current threats in the news such as APT, Stuxnet, and Anonymous
Panel: Executive Perspectives
Concerns and solutions in today’s environments
Panel: Risk Management
Cybersecurity impacts on business risk management
Verizon Data Breach Incident Report
An empirical overview of current trends
Social Networking
Ups, downs, concerns and impacts of social networking on cyber security
Users and Awareness
Exploration of the most critical aspect of cyber security: Users
Verizon Data Breach Incident Report: Bryan Sartin/Verizon Business
Industry Case Study 1: Boeing Mike Garrett/Boeing
Panel: Offensive Perspectives: Kevin Finisterre Ruben Santamarta Mark Fabro
Social Media: Patrick Gray/CISCO
Panel: Maritime Stakeholders (USCG & Industry)
Panel: Threats in the News: Scot Terban (Anonymous) Liam O Murchu / Symantec (Stuxnet) (APT)
Industry Case Study 2: Transportation Control Systems Darryl Song/Volpe
Keynote: Vice Admiral Parker/ USCG
DHS
Panel: Executive Perspectives: Amit Yoran/Netwitness Gus Hunt/CTO of CIA
Sector Collaboration
Users & Awareness Mike Murray/MAD Security
Panel: Risk Management Jack Johnson/PWC Russell Thomas Jack Whitsitt
Not really appropriate for this blog, but I’m pretty lazy about updating my art-only one: Paivi and I were juried into (along with many other talented local photographers) the DCist Exposed show this year and the opening is Saturday, March 6. Come see it, if you’re in town and free. My selected photo was:
Official press release follows:
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Washington, DC — DCist.com is pleased to announce its fourth annual DCist Exposed Photography Show, at Long View Gallery, running March 6 to 21, 2010. Out of over 1,000 individual entries submitted through Flickr.com, 47 winning images were selected by a panel of judges to be included in this year’s DCist Exposed exhibit. DCist.com prides itself on engaging and promoting emerging local photographers through its daily use of images from the popular, reader-generated DCist Flickr photo pool. Each day, DCist.com selects photos from the pool for use in its daily coverage of local news, arts and entertainment, food and sports.
This year’s opening reception will be bigger and better than ever, to be held Saturday, March 6, 2010 from 6 to 10 p.m. At the bar, mixologist Scott Palmer from Dino will have a special punch, Leopold Brothers will host a liquor tasting, and Pabst Blue Ribbon will hold down the fort with plenty of beer. Nage will provide hor’dourves, while DJs v:shal kanwar and Sequoia spin tunes. Reception is $5 per guest at the door.
Long View Gallery is located at 1234 9th St. NW, just a few blocks from the Mt. Vernon/Convention Center Metro. The 2009 DCist Exposed event welcomed over 1,000 people on opening night, and with this even larger venue, we expect our biggest crowd ever. All photographs selected and displayed at DCist Exposed will be for sale at prices well below traditional gallery shows. Regular gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m.
The 2010 DCist Exposed Photography Show is sponsored by Ten Miles Square, Pink Line Project, and Pabst Blue Ribbon.
All, I’ll be giving a quick (5 minute) introduction to using Neurosky’s Mindset API to do cool stuff with your brainwaves – like making art while you sleep :) – on 02/23/10 @7:30pm as part of HacDC’s Lightning Talks (featuring 12 speakers for 5 minutes each). For the introduction, I’ll be using the simple Objective-C server and custom written Quartz Composer plug-in client to display a visualization that response to both your brainwaves and ambient noise/music together. Come out and see!
Check out the example proof-of-code video I did below (a longer post to come tomorrow):
EDIT: THIS HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO SNOW. Not sure what to do after shmoocon Friday night? Not going to the con but need something to do? Come over to the HacDC Hacker’s Lounge event for a little while (runs 8pm-2am). I’ve been putting some fun NEW interactive Quartz video projections together for the event (link goes to early older work – need to show up to see newer stuff) and Daniel Packer will be doing some audio with supercollider. Oh yeah, and I hear there will be booze.
I can’t tell you if there will be 10 people or 100 there, but if you take a chance and show up, that’s 1 closer to 100 :)
In a bit of fun and interesting timing it turns out I’ll be going to flocon in New Orleans this January.
Since I’ve spent the past 2-3 years doing business risk and security architecture, national sector level strategy, policy, etc….but now find myself getting into the technical details of building a CERT (ICS-CERT, specifically)…it’s suddenly time to get more up to speed on flows and how people are using them these days (Especially since I’d previously spent most of my time with firewalls and IDS data and not netflow / SiLK stuff).
My work on and release of pkviz this past weekend has helped a bit to get me re-focused on data analysis and playing with correlation tools and methodologies, but I’m still finding it odd going back to my earlier technology-centric security role – which I’d thought I’d given up. My head space has to be completely different than it was and I have to work around what some have called my fatalistic belief that technical security measures and analysis are doomed to fail in the face of our complete lack of interest in doing business risk architectures.
What scares me a little, though, is when I’ve been talking to people and doing research lately, it seems the state of the art of IDS, Flows, SEMS, SIEMS, network data analysis, etc. hasn’t changed all that much in the past few years. More vendors have sold more products, but they still do the same (questionable) things it seems. What gives? Am I off base?
Still, I’m pretty excited to get back into this type of thing and about the con. Who’s going to be there?
Histogram of major words in the US Stimulus Bill. Big Grey blob in the second "mountain peak" from the left represents "Health" in the Bill. You can see it takes a disproportionate place in everything.
Originally uploaded by sintixerr
This is a follow-up to a previous post and is philosophically related to this post.
On the subject of these “data visualizations as art”, I’ve been trying to better articulate why I think they’re art and how I’m trying to evolve my process.
What it comes down to is that there seems to be two pieces to developing the visualizations:
- Choosing the right structure and things to measure about the text or data…what makes sense to compare to what. How do you reduce the noise and non-dependent variables? Each type of text you’re measuring and each circumstance has different relationships. There is a lot of science to this part, but it’s not completely predicatable. There is art.
- How do you visually best enhance and needle out the important details, contrast between points, etc so that they can be “seen” in the noise that doesnt matter? This is all art. Understanding how color, shape, contrast, etc all work together and how to use all of those to present a dense amount of information without being overwhelming is tricky and depends on the skill of the one creating it…
It’s my belief that playing to what we understand as people’s abilities to process and comprehend aesthetics in art involves exactly the same techniques and takes advantage of the same aspects of peoples brains/senses as good visual data analysis. So, if you’re doing data analysis, you start out figuring out #1, and then move to #2 based on #1.
What I was trying to do with these stimulus images – and the last of my security visualizations – was start out with concepts of what I’d like for #2 (how they would “feel”) and then figure out what I needed to do in #1 (massage the data) to get there…while still remaining true to the underlying information.
Next up (and once I learn more Objective C), I’m going to try and read in the stimulus bill to Quartz Composer and combine my recent interactive/music visualizations with the Bill. We’ll see if that goes anywhere interesting. :)
Also, Artomatic returns to DC this year. I very well may be displaying this stuff there when it comes around. This or the music/webcam visualizations.
