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This month's meeting:

  This month we will be talking about tools for analyzing the contents
  of network traffic for computer security investigations.

  It is sometimes useful to record the network traffic pertaining to
  security incidents so that you can go back and try to discern
  exactly what the crooks were trying to do and how they did it.  We
  do this at times at OSU when we investigate security intrusions on
  our systems.  In some investigations from the last year we
  accumulated over 20 gigabytes of log files.  The complexity of these
  logs, as well as the overwhelming amount of information this
  represents encouraged us to write better tools for viewing and
  summarizing logs of packet contents.  We call this software system
  "review", since we use it for reviewing our packet log files.

  Steve Romig will talk about these logs and the review software.  At
  the very least we will cover some "screen shots" showing how the
  software works and what it can do, with luck we will also have a
  live demo.

  The meeting will be on Wednesday October 22 from 4-6 PM in Baker
  Systems 120.  Attendance is open to the public.

  Note that there has been more than the usual bit of construction
  around the Woody Hayes/Tuttle park intersection, so getting to the
  Northwest Parking Ramp itself might be interesting.  Looks like you
  can approach it from either Woody Hayes (heading East) or Tuttle
  (either direction) now, but I don't know what will change this week
  or not.

Next month:

  Note that next month we are rescheduling the meeting due to the
  Thanksgiving holiday.  We will be meeting on November 19th, from 1-5
  PM, somewhere on campus.  This will be a special meeting - we're
  bringing in a pair of speakers from University of Michigan to give a
  presentation about the technical and legal aspects of logging and
  monitoring, which should prove to be quite interesting.  I will send
  out more detailed information, including speaker biographies and a
  location. as soon as I have that all put together.

  We will also be rescheduling the December meeting, but I do not have
  a date, topic or speaker locked down for that yet.  Stay tuned...

About these meetings:

  The Network Security Group meetings are usually held on the fourth
  Wednesday of each month from 4-6 PM on the Ohio State University
  main campus in Columbus (usually in Baker Systems 120).  The goal of
  our meetings is to share information about computer security tools,
  practices and problems.  Anyone and everyone are invited to attend.

  We also have mailing lists for people who are interested in
  discussing network security issues, or who just want announcements
  about meetings and security bulletins.  Send mail to
  netwog-security-request@lists.net.ohio-state.edu for more
  information.

--- Steve