Webinars and talks from the intersection of network operations, network security, and software development.
A recording of the talk that I gave at GrrCon 2011. An asteroid fell from the sky and the data center is now a smoking crater. At least, that’s the scenario that launches your business continuity planning. BCP asks the questions: what do we have, what does it do, what is the risk and what is the value? The answers to these questions are also essential build blocks of a risk management program. This presents an opportunity for the savvy information security professional. In this session, we wil...
A recording of my talk at ISSA in 2008. "The Motor City Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) will be hosting their September meeting with a presentation on Practical Risk Management. Their speaker, J. Wolfgang Goerlich, CISSP, CISA, is an information security professional with over a decade of experience in IT. Currently Mr. Goerlich is the Network Operations and Security Manager for a large financial institution in Michigan. In this presentation, Mr. Goerlich will de...
A recording of my talk at the Storage Networking World (SNW) conference in April 2011. Take any given disaster recovery program and you will see one or more recovery strategies being used. Take any particular recovery strategy, and you will see it protecting one or more business processes. This talk discusses metrics for evaluating and optimizing strategies, along with ways to cost justify the DR/BCP budget based on business impact.
A recording of my talk at the Storage Networking World (SNW) conference in April 2008. Our innovation, at the time, was a direct physical-to-virtual restoration driven completely by the san and accomplished in less than fifteen minutes. In the talk, I review the evolution of my firm's disaster recovery, how our primary storage allows for innovative recovery strategies, and the recovery strategies that we use.
Hacking Business Intelligence (BI) software to build effective Security Information Management (SIM) solutions. SIM is the correlation of data on the current state of a computer network system, the current activity of processes and people on the computer network system, and the historic usage pattern of the same. The purpose of the SIM correlation is to provide actionable information in the forms of alerts, reports, and visualizations to enable correct and timely response by Information Securi...
SimWitty's brand image is getting a makeover ahead of our SimWitty 2010 release. Join us on this webinar for a designer’s commentary. Michael Galligan and J Wolfgang Goerlich discuss influences on and history of SimWitty's image, and unveil our new logo.
A Matriux (http://www.matriux.com) hosted webinar by the SimWitty team (http://www.simwitty.org). During the talk, we introduce the SimWitty community and software. Various team members explain their projects including intrusion detection (Snort), vulnerability assessment (Nessus), and penetration testing (Metasploit).