[ISECOM-news] OSSTMM in India

[Pete H. <pe...@is...>]

Hi,

Those of you in and around Bangalore may want to check out Joerg Simon 
from the Fedora Project and an ISECOM team member talking about The 
Fedora Security Spin and the OSSTMM at foss.in.

The abstract:

"Security Vendors do not get tired to sell us the same 
security-products since years, by just making new marketing hypes. 
People buy that as the truth to increase their information security. 
These "truths" turn into Best Practices which then become Standards. 
Compliance, Audits and Checklists - that seems to be the new holy 
grail to increase Security. Or worse, is this the real new threat 
delivered by the Security Industry to prevent us from learning what 
real security is? Do crackers care for compliance ;) ?

This Talk will not answer the question why you should protect yourself 
or why you should do security testing - answer is to easy - because it 
is all evil out there ;) - this is what we have learned in the past - 
you know from whom!"


See also:

http://foss.in/2009/schedules/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=32
http://kitall.blogspot.com/2009/11/join-us-on-fedora-project-of-day-on.html

Good luck to Joerg in his presentation and we hope that you go see him 
talk if you can. Also, if you're interested in working with ISECOM, he 
can explain it to you in person :)

Sincerely,
-pete.

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