MANDIANT’s Chuck Willis to Present at Black Hat DC 2008

Security Expert to Discuss Cross Site Request Forgery Defense

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

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 offices in the Washington, DC area and New York City. For more information about MANDIANT visit www.mandiant.com.

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