MANDIANT's Wendi Whitmore and Chuck Willis to Present at U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference 2008

Security Experts to Discuss Mac OS X Incident Response and Cross Site Request Forgery Defense

MANDIANT, an elite provider of incident response management services and solutions, announced today that its Principal Consultants, Wendi Whitmore and Chuck Willis, will deliver presentations on incident response and intrusion investigations at this year’s U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference 2008 held January 14-18 in St. Louis.

Whitmore’s presentation, “Mac OS X Incident Response,” will take place on Wednesday, January 16 at 10:30 am and will cover how to conduct comprehensive incident response and intrusion investigations on the Macintosh operating system, as well as provide real-life case studies and tips for determining indicators of compromise.

Willis’ presentation, “Preparing for the Cross Site Request Forgery Defense,” will be held on January 17 at 2:30 pm 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.

Wendi Whitmore serves as Principal Consultant within the Federal Services Division of MANDIANT and has extensive experience with network incident response within enterprises, Department of Defense, federal law enforcement agencies and the national intelligence community. Chuck Willis, also a Principal Consultant, concentrates his work in web application security and research and development. He has also conducted computer forensics and network intrusion investigations as a U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent.

This year’s U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference 2008 will be held January 14-18, 2008, at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. For more information on this event, visit: http://www.technologyforums.com/8CC/

About MANDIANT

MANDIANT is an information security company providing professional services, education and software 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. In addition to authoring nine 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 office in the Washington, DC area and New York City. For more information about MANDIANT visit www.mandiant.com.

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