to be updated soon..........
30 Jun 2006
SIG^2 Extra-ordinary Meeting - Discussion on AINSEP
This meeting is to discuss with SIG^2 members on the committee's decision to
dissolve SIG^2, as a society, to form the National Body or Association for
Information Risk and Security Professionals (codename AINSEP).
As early as 2003, SIG^2 floated the intent to form a professional
charter for information security practitioners. In 2004, the Infocomm
Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore and SIG^2 were actively
involved in the laying the cornerstones necessary for such a charter.
By early 2006, the SIG^2 committee and AINSEP participating partners
deemed the conditions suitable for the establishment of the national
charter.
In May 2006, the Committee convened and voted to dissolve SIG^2, as a
society, to form the Association of Information Risk
and Security Professional (AINSEP). The decision was reached after
rigorous deliberation and utmost care were taken to ensure the interests
of SIG^2 were preserved (the minutes will be presented during the EGM).
In accordance to the SIG^2 constitution, the committee called this EGM
with the following agenda:
(1) Introduction to AINSEP, its partners and SIG^2 participation
(2) Value proposition by IDA to SIG^2 on forming AINSEP
(3) Due diligence exercised by the committee
(4) Impact and changes to SIG^2 constitution and existing projects
(5) Arrangements and your rights under AINSEP
(6) Key benefits to SIG^2 members under AINSEP
(7) Timeline and milestones to forming AINSEP
(8) AOB
For more details, read the EGM minutes here!
7 Mar and 10 Mar 2006
NUS and NTU IT Security Career Development and Recruitment Seminars
SIG^2 organized 2 career seminars within a week with NUS School of Computing and NTU School of Computer Engineering to address key career enquiries with help from senior security professionals such as Kang Meng Chow (Microsoft), Anthony Lim (SITF and BMC), Kwek Hong Sin (Quantiq International and SITF), Michael Chua (WestField Consulting), Chng Tim Meng (Lucent Technologies), Lim Keng Hoe (Quantiq International). Followup for members will be held in late March or early April! Watch out for it!
16 Jan 2006
Wireless Network Seminar
The dynamic duo from local security upstart, ThinkSECURE, shared with a receptive crowd on the latest wireless tools and client based attacks!
30 Nov 2005
Catch Steve Riley From Microsoft With His Latest Updates On Windows Security
Do you know about the latest Microsoft security initiatives ? Such as their endpoint security for anti-virus & anti-spyware? What about their initiative to build Network Access Protection and other security features in futures OS? If you had missed this session, then too bad 'cos Steve Riley, Senior Program Manager from Microsoft Security is not going to talk about these topics with our members again, at least for this year!
15 Nov 2005
IT Security Professionals: Understanding Security Product Evaluation, Certification & Common Criteria
Dr Mike Nash, a leading international expert on information security, was available to share with our members on what are the role and responsibility of the players such as the evaluation laboratories, the consultants and demands of Common Criteria.
18 Oct 2005
Steganography and Computer Forensics Investigation Seminar
Steganography is the art of covered writing, and it is better and more dangerous than cryptography. Cryptography, the art of secret writing, is intended to make a message unreadable. The purpose of steganography is not only to encrypt a message, but also to hide the existence of a message from a third party. George Lekatis, renowned IT Security consultant is here to share his knowledge on this topic with our members.
10 Aug 2005
4th SIG^2 AGM
Another new committee is elected into office ushering in a new era of responsibility and anticipation.
1 Jul 2005
Metasploit - The Real And Updated Stuffs, CompTia Certifications: Security+ etc - All you want to know about it && A National Early Warning Capability Based on a Network of Distributed Honeypot
An eventful night where we have HD Moore, Cristine and KK to share their knowledge with our members.
31 May 2005
Integrated Perimeter Security && All you want to know about Quantum Cryptography
Robert of IP Angel and Darwin from NUS share their night with our members with a quantum leap of faith in perimeter defence.
27 Apr 2005
Evening session with Peter Cullen & Eric Ashdown from Microsoft to speak on Information Security
Peter and Eric of Microsoft led a full-house crowd through a evening of sharing session on Privacy and China issues.
30 Mar 2005
IWFC/Honeynet Updates & SANS Top 20 Consensus Project
Steven and Michael of team SIG^2 honeynet update our members on the latest development of project IWFC.
24 Feb 2005
SIG^2-SGDN Joint Event: .NET Security
Alan and Steven brief us on .NET security and .NET & J2EE inter-operability.
25 Jan 2005
Security enhancements in Windows XP Service Pack 2
Steve Riley is back in Singapore with a great presentation on SP2. He also threw in an additional presentation for those who were early.
16 Dec 2004
An Evening with SyScAN Speakers, SIG^2 Internet Weather Forecast Centre && HITBSecConf 2004 CtF Experience Sharing
A great night out with the SyScan speakers and knowledge sharing with our victors from HITB CTF and the key persona that got us onto the Honeynet Alliance. What more can you ask for?
12 Oct 2004
Latest Trends and Patch Management && Emerging Storage Security Needs
Microsoft gave an update on the latest happenings that are churning from Redmond and that includes Patch Management. Decru then gave an insight on how to better secure your DAS, NAS and SANS.
30 Sep 2004
Tech Certification Nite I
Our members had a great nite interacting with the principals and course coordinators for various IT security certifications and howthey can help you!
22 Jul 2004
3rd Annual General Meeting
We have our 3rd AGM in Newroom Bar, Mohd Sultan Road! The atmosphere and free flow of housepour are signals of times to come! In any case, a quorum has been reached! Please continue to give your support to the committee!
24 Jun 2004
Network Security Monitoring && All about G-TEC projects and a call for participation
Thanks to Michael for the presentation on SGUID and NSM. Also, we have a good interest on G-TEC projects, which is heartening to know!
27 May 2004
Remote Server Management using Dynamic Port Knocking and Forwarding & Updates from (ISC)2
Our first technical presentation right straight out from G-TEC lab! And more to go!
27 Feb 2004
Secure Vaulting
Our guests, Alon and Udi, shared with us the essence of vaulting technology and how it can be used to improve on your parameter fencing architecture.
5 Jan - 17 Jan 2004
SIG^2 ITSEC Recruitment Seminar 2004
Co-organized by School of Computing of the National University of Singapore and sponsored by the likes of DSO National
Laboratories, Microsoft, Sensecurity Institute and Quantiq International, this recruitment seminar tried to answer all
queries, doubts and unshroud the secrecy behind the job nature of an ITSEC professional and her pop culture, made popular
by the alter ego of Neo and Trinity in the Matrix series. For university undergraduates only.
18 Dec 2003
An Evening with the Blackhats
SIG^2 had an early Christmas gathering when Halvar Flake, David Aitel, SK Chong, Shaumil Shah and The
Grugg led an BOF session in a "ho ho ho" spirit!
3 Oct 2003
A Can of Worms && A Tale of 2 Cities
This represent a shift in focus. This year onwards, we will focus more on technical studies. These 2
presentations are the results of studies done by our members on the recent MSBlast worm and SARS effects on BCP. We had an
interesting night dissecting the worms and analyzing the data obtained from the survey on SARS on BCP!
25 Jul 2003
2nd Annual General Meeting
We have our 2nd AGM! A quorum has been reached! Please give your support to the new committee! More
interesting events and activities coming your way!
29 May 2003
Latest Generation of Crypto Smart Cards - Capabilities and Applications
Lin Yih gave us a technical overview of Crypto Smart Cards, their critical success factors,technology behind
them and applications. An interesting demonstration gave the attendees plenty of to think about!
29 Mar 2003
EOGM and Bluetooth Security Talk
We had our Extra-Ordinary General Meeting to reach certain resolutions that will help to streamline our
operations in the midst of a superb and detailed analysis of the Bluetooth protocol given by Ford Long and Kok Hong!
13 Mar 2003
"Rethinking Security" with Michael Chua
Michael Chua led us through the night with his unique presentation style on ITSEC!
28 Feb 2003
Infocomm Security Forum with Tom and Justin Peltier
We were fortunate to have with us for one night, world renown security persona Tom and
Justin Peltier, to talk about Risk Assessment and Security Policy under their self-developed framework of FRAP!
4 Feb 2003
CISA/CISM Briefing Session
Ee Chuan of ISACA Singapore Chapter brought us a briefing session on the CISA and CISM certifications at IDA!
30 Jan 2003
Jumpstart to CISSP Revision II
We had experienced CISSPs within our panel to share with us the perils of the exam and help us
prepare ourselves for the gruelling 6 hour paper!
18 Jan 2003
XSS - Understanding The Threat, Migitating The Risks
We had 2 speakers from JPMorgan, and DSO to share with us on the practical aspects, and the vulnerabilities of Wireless LAN (WLAN). The speakers hope to raise awareness on deployment issues, and will give a 'live' demostration on how a WLAN can be compromised.
12 Dec 2002
Practicals on WirelessLAN Vulnerabilities
We had 2 speakers from JPMorgan, and DSO to share with us on the practical aspects, and the vulnerabilities of Wireless LAN (WLAN). The speakers hope to raise awareness on deployment issues, and will give a 'live' demostration on how a WLAN can be compromised.
10 Dec 2002
Industry Nites: IT Security
Everyone is invited to the JobStreet.com's Industry Nites at library@orchard for an evening of discussion and networking with fellow professionals and speakers in the IT Security field. One of the speakers is Mr Aloysius Cheang, President of SIG^2, and they will be sharing with us some security developments. More information here.
28 Nov 2002
SISP Course Preview
A SISP Course Preview organised by Sensecurity Institute.
19 Oct 2002
How to kick-start your CISSP revision!
We had the pleasure of having a panel of CISSP certified members to prepare our users for the CISSP certification.
3 Oct 2002
A night with members of LSD and Jay Beale
We were brought into the world of intrusion detection and honeynet by our guests LSD and Jay Beale respectively.
30 Sep 2002
Monday with FX/Phenoelit
In a session whereby FX share with us his latest finding, we have an interesting nights of routers and embedded system!
13 Sep 2002
An Analysis of
a Compromised Server
We had the pleasure of being invited by LUGS for a brief of a forensic
conducted on a real compromised server!
11 Sep 2002
Mac OS Security Briefing by Apple
We had the pleasure of having some Apple folks all the way from
Cupertino Headquarters in Silicon Valley to share with us the security
efforts in Mac OS 10
31 Aug 2002
Rendezvous with
Rain Forest Puppy
We had the pleasure of having Rain Forest Puppy or RFP, well known
for his web security tool, Whisker, to lead a discussion session with
our members.
23 Jul 2002
1st Annual General Meeting
We had our AGM this day, anchored by a talk given by Dr Stephen
Kent of BBN Technologies. The outgoing President reviewed the activities
of the past year and the Treasurer presented the accounts. A new committee
is formed!
June - July 2002
Online Crypto Contest
We have a winner here!
14 Mar 2002
Cybergame (18-29
Feb) Review
On 14 Mar, SIG^2 held a review of the Cybergame which took place
from 18 to 29 Feb. Thanks to iDA, we were able to hold this session in
one of their seminar rooms in Suntec City. Of course, the winners of the
contest were announced too.
5 Mar 2002
Talk by Chris Rouland,
Director X-Force
Mr Chris Rouland, Director of X-Force, the research arm of ISS,
gave a talk to SIG^2 members on 5 Mar in the Auditorium of DSO National
Laboratories. The title of his presentation was "Anatomy of a Hack".
18 - 25 Feb 2002
Red-Blue Cybergame
SIG^2 has held its first Red-Blue Cybergame from 18 Feb to 25 Feb 2002.
A volunteer Blue team set up and manned some networks and services. The
rest of the participants, organized into Red teams, were trying to test
the security of the systems set up by the Blue team.
14 Dec 2001
Talk on Legal Issues of IT Security
Rajesh Sreenivasan, who specialises in information technology
and telecommunications law, gave a talk to members on legal issues in
the context of computer security. He spoke on the legal framework in Singapore
to address Computer Crime and strategies for securing privacy.
24 Sep 2001
1st Incident Briefing
Event - Nimda Virus
SIG^2 held its first Incident Briefing session on Monday 24 September
evening at the iDA Club House in Suntec City. Around 15 SIG^2 members
attended the briefing, which was conducted by Ching Tim Meng and Ho Kee
Vin, both Senior Consultants from Trisecurity Pte Ltd. The topic for the
session was the Nimda word, which ravaged the Internet the previous week
and infected thousands of servers and PCs.
13 Sep 2001
SIG^2 Inaugural
Event
The turnout at SIG^2's Inaugural Event at DSTA Auditorium on 13
September exceeded our expectations. 140 people turned up and signed up
on the spot as members. Processing all these registrations pushed back
our program's start by half an hour. There were also not enough refreshments
and snacks, because we had originally expected and catered for 40 persons.
While this unexpectedly high level of response was a good sign, we also
recognize that we could have been better prepared to handle this contingency.
Apologies - we will be better prepared next time.
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