10/29/08 – Guest Speaker on Pentetration Testing: Mike Collins
The next ACM SigSecurity meeting is Wednesday 10/29/08 in CS209A at 7:00.
Mike Collins has recently joined the Risk Management team at Brown Smith Wallace LLC after 8 years at Deloitte & Touche. There he had national responsibility for the approval of security practitioners and testing tools that the firm utilizes for attack and penetration engagements. He has more than 12 years of experience in the field of information systems security, is an acknowledged national expert in attack and penetration testing, UNIX systems administration and security, firewall and network architecture, wireless networking and intrusion detection systems. He has performed a large number of security assessments for companies in the financial services, government, consumer business, energy and telecommunications industries. The security solutions provided include intrusion detection, firewall systems, authentication systems, and security architecture implementation assistance.
He has designed and implemented Virtual Private Network (VPN) and wireless solutions allowing clients to reduce costs considerably related to network connectivity and designed and implemented a wide range of firewall architectures, including Checkpoint Firewall–1, Gauntlet, Raptor, and PIX based firewalls and various intrusion detection technologies.
