HITB Security Conference Malaysia 2008

Day 1
This year i got a change to join this great security conference. As a newbie to the security field, I feel a bit strange for the first day. This is not because of some of topics were very deeply about the security issues, but this event like an international events plus many speakers and participations from outside Malaysia. All the keynote speakers for the first very great, Jeremiah Grossman and Marcus Ranum do their best at explaining their own topics. After break, I join the topics that i think quite interesting for me, among them are from Oracle, Hernan Ochoa of Core Security and Saumil Shah form Net Squire Solutions. Don't expect to get lunch on this event, they only provided you with two tea breaks. The best topics for the first day (at least for me :))is Paul Craig talking on how to hack the internet kioks, he show a lot of demo on how to hack the internet kioks especially at his homegrown New Zealand. I miss the track from Roberto Preatoni from Zome-H fame because i got to go back early that day.

Day 2
One of the keynote speaker for day 2, Dr Anton from Log Logic not available, so TiAMO and brokep from The Pirate Bay (TPB) take good change to present more about their TPB. A lot interesting history behind the scene which many didn't know about TPB. I miss some of the interesting tracks that day but Adrian Pastor from GNUCITIZEN really impress me. Now I'm know why GNUCITIZEN very fomous on the security world whather white or black hat. Last track is Shreeraj Shah from Blueinfy talking some topics about the security hole on web 2.0. I enjoy 2 days on this conference, i miss HITB lab because i'm didn't know i can participate this lab, i think this is for the training purpose. Thanks the guys who are sponsor me for this great conference.

Seminar Keselamatan ICT 2008

Lega rasanya sebaik sahaja tamat Seminar Keselamatan ICT 2008 yang telah diadakan pada 3 April 2008 hari tu. Aku yang bertindak sebagai pengerusi atau pengarah seminar ini betul-betul lega kerana seminar ini telah berlansung dengan jayanya seperti mana yang dirancang.

Seminggu dua sebelum tu macam-macam perkara aku kena tengok terutama bab jemputan para penceramah, bajet, perasmian, jemputan VVIP dan sebagainya. Tapi yang paling aku risau ialah takut-takut penceramah yang dijemput membatalkan jemputan pada last minit, takde plan B. Target bilangan peserta adalah sekitar 200 orang tetapi kehadiran peserta pada hari tu adalah sekitar 170 orang, kira ok la tu.

Sasaran utama peserta seminar ini adalah untuk semua tenaga pengajar atau personel IT dari Institut Latihan Kemahiran Awam (ILKA) dari seluruh negara seperti ILP, IKBN, MARA dan sebagainya. Tetapi seminggu sebelum seminar berlansung, aku dimaklumkan bilangan peserta adalah begitu kurang dari sasaran. Aku megambil pendekatan untuk membuat announce di forum ITTutor , memandang aku biasa berada pada forum ini. Walaupun announcement tersebut hanya 3 hari tetapi sambutan dari ahli forum tersebut cukup menggalakkan. Terima kasih diatas kehadiran semua.

Para penceramah yang dijemput boleh dikatakan orang-orang lama yang terlibat dengan bidang security seperti En Kamal Hilmi (ex NISER), En Mahmud (CyberSecurity), En Saidi (SCAN) dan En Nawawi (GCERT MAMPU). Walaupun terdapat penceramah yang membincangkan topik-topik yang agak advanced tetapi secara keseluruhan topik-topik mereka menarik minat peserta seminar.

Topik-topik yang dibawakan pada seminar ini ialah:
1. Pengurusan Keselamatan ICT di Agensi Awam - En Nawawi GCERT MAMPU
2. Web Application Security - En Saidi SCAN Associates
3. Introduction to Malware - En Kamal Hilmi Defenxis
4. Network Forensic - en Mahmud CyberSecurity

Kepada mereka yang berminat untuk mendapatkan softcopy nota penceramah boleh download disini.