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MANDIANT, an elite provider of incident response management services and solutions, announced today that its Principal Consultant, Chuck Willis, will deliver a presentation on intrusion investigations at this year’s Black Hat DC 2008 Briefing and Training held on February 18-21 in Washington, DC.
Willis’ presentation, “Preparing for the Cross Site Request Forgery Defense,” will be held on February 20th at 10:00 am and will discuss how cross site request forgery can be utilized to manipulate a user’s history and force the user to submit data to online web applications. Willis will also present methods to detect or rule out the use of this vulnerability during an analysis.
Chuck Willis concentrates his work in web application security as well as research and development. He has conducted computer forensics and network intrusion investigations as a U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent. He has earned a Masters in Computer Science and holds both the CISSP and CFCE designations.
This year’s Black Hat DC Conference will be held February 18-21, 2008, at the Westin DC City Center in Washington, DC. For more information on this event, visit: http://www.blackhat.com
MANDIANT is an information security company providing products, professional services and education to Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, government agencies, domestic and foreign police departments and several of the U.S.’s leading law firms. MANDIANT security consultants are acknowledged experts in incident response, computer forensics, network security and application security. MANDIANT is a VISA approved Qualified Incident Response Assessor. In addition to authoring seven books and numerous articles about computer forensics, incident response and rootkits, MANDIANT’s consultants have been featured on news programs including CBS’s 60 Minutes, CNN’s Talkback Live, NBC News and FOX News. MANDIANT operates offices in the Washington, DC area, New York City and Los Angeles. To learn more about MANDIANT, visit http://www.mandiant.com, or read the company blog, M-Unition, at http://blog.mandiant.com.