SecureWorld Expo

Today I attended the SecureWorld Expo at the Valley Forge Convention Center. Other than that warm fuzzy feeling you get from receiving free swag and having sales reps chat you up, I got some excellent information about web server hacking and security. The highlight of the day was a session with Justin Peltier, a Senior Security Consultant with Peltier Associates, with over ten years of experience in firewall and security technologies. Using little more than freely available nmap, netcat and a proprietary security auditing tool he was able to infiltrate and own servers both windows and linix. This information will be invaluable in auditing and locking down my own servers as well as those of my employers and clients.