Virginia

Last Month
In August, our talks were:

"Software Assurance and the Insider Threat" by Karen Mercedes Goertzel, Booz Allen. Karen is a subject matter expert in software assurance and information assurance, particularly multilevel secure systems and cross-domain information sharing. She supports the DHS SwA Program and the National Security Agency’s Center for Assured Software, and was lead technologist for 3 years on the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Application Security Program. Karen was lead author of IATAC's the state-of-the-art reports in software security assurance and insider threats. This talk will combine the two topics.

"Protecting Your Applications From Backdoors: How Static Binary Analysis Helps Build High-Assurance Applications" by Shawn Hank of Veracode. Backdoors and malicious code pose operational risk to software at a level too significant for organizations to ignore. The common practices of outsourcing and using third-party libraries are making modern application development increasingly complex. As a result, it is nearly impossible for an enterprise to identify the pedigree and security level of the software running their business-critical applications and handling their customers' personally identifiable information.

Next Meeting
Our next meeting will be on 14 August from 6-9pm at the Booz Allen Herndon facility. Our talks will be:

"Software Assurance and the Insider Threat" by Karen Mercedes Goertzel, Booz Allen. Karen is a subject matter expert in software assurance and information assurance, particularly multilevel secure systems and cross-domain information sharing. She supports the DHS SwA Program and the National Security Agency’s Center for Assured Software, and was lead technologist for 3 years on the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Application Security Program. Karen was lead author of IATAC's the state-of-the-art reports in software security assurance and insider threats. This talk will combine the two topics.

"Protecting Your Applications From Backdoors: How Static Binary Analysis Helps Build High-Assurance Applications" by Shawn Hank of Veracode. Backdoors and malicious code pose operational risk to software at a level too significant for organizations to ignore. The common practices of outsourcing and using third-party libraries are making modern application development increasingly complex. As a result, it is nearly impossible for an enterprise to identify the pedigree and security level of the software running their business-critical applications and handling their customers' personally identifiable information.

As you can see, there is a theme for this meeting.

Pizza will be provided for a small fee. If you plan on attending, RSVP so I can get you badge processing started.

Directions
To Booz Allen's One Dulles facility:

13200 Woodland Park Road Herndon, VA 20171

From Tyson's Corner:

1. Take LEESBURG PIKE / VA-7 WEST 2. Merge onto VA-267 WEST / DULLES TOLL ROAD (Portions Toll) 3. Take the VA-657 Exit (Exit Number 10 towards Herndon / Chantilly) 4. Take the ramp toward CHANTILLY 5. Turn Left onto CENTERVILLE ROAD (at end of ramp) 6. Turn Left onto WOODLAND PARK ROAD (less than 1⁄2 mile) 7. End at 13200 WOODLAND PARK ROAD