Day 3 – Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Venue: Academy for IT, University of Johannesburg, Kingsway avenue

08:30–09:00

Registration

Workshop on hands-on ethical hacking and software security

Brief description: The workshop deals with current issues in information security. During the workshop the participant will have hands-on experience doing software exploits, after which each software exploit will be explained with its associated countermeasure. After attending the workshop the participant should have a good understanding of the basic information security standards which should be adhered to in corporate environments. The entire session will be a hands-on and interactive session.

Workshop facilitator: Francois Mouton, Information and Computer Security Architectures Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria

09:00-10:30

Workshop session 1: Password authoring and steganography

10:30-11:00 

Tea 

11:00-12:30

Workshop session 2: Intrusion detection systems and software exploits

12:30-13:30

Lunch 

13:30-15:00

Workshop session 3: Corporate and personal firewalls

15:00-15:30

Tea

15:30-17:00

Workshop session 4: Social engineering and vulnerabilities in the South African context