Hermes II VPNs - security's magic bullet @ BCS Tayside 11 June

Weekly Distribution 11/06/2007

VPNs - NETWORK SECURITY'S MAGIC BULLET

Speaker: JAMES EATON-LEE

VPNs are tools very widely used in business for everything from remote access to linking sites together. Although frequently used to add and augment security, there are a number of common ways in which they’re misused, as well as architectural flaws in VPN technology which make them ill-suited at what they do – and in some instances less secure!

James will discuss some of these weaknesses and what implications they can have, as well as outlining alternative ways of giving people remote access to services and data cheaply, securely, and easily.

James Eaton-Lee works as an infrastructure security specialist for a consultancy. Clients range from small businesses with a handful of employees to multinational banks and Fortune 200 companies. He has experience implementing, supporting, fixing, and breaking a wide variety of technologies. He is also co-author of a book on configuring Linux firewalls, which has received good reviews.

BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY - TAYSIDE BRANCH

Monday 11th June 2007, 7:00 p.m.
(Free refreshments available before the meeting)

Venue: University of Dundee,
City Campus, Queen Mother Building (School of Computing), Balfour Street (off Old Hawkhill), Wolfson Lecture Theatre

(This venue can be found as Building 61 on the Campus Map at http://www.dundee.ac.uk/general/campusmap/)
Non-members, including students, are most welcome at this meeting.