The Saudi MCIT (don’t mind the design) will be hosting a 2 day seminar on PKI (Public key infrastructure). The seminars will be for 2 days starting tomorrow the 15th to the 16th of December 2009. The seminar will be titled “Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges in PKI”.
The following will be speaking at the seminar:
- Dr. Fahad Al Hoymany. Senior Advisor and Head of National Center for Digital Certification (NCDC) , Saudi Arabia.
- Phil D’Angio. Director of Business Development for VeriSign EMEA.
- Dr. Khalid alghonaim. General Manager Alelm company ,Saudi Arabia.
- Eng. Ali alsoma.General Manager E-Government Program “YESSER” Saudi Arabia.
- Ami Azrul bin Abdullah.Chief Technology Officer Digicert Sdn Bhd., Malaysia.
- Youngchul Kang.CEO, National Administration Information System and Security Co, South Korea.
- Sami Ghazali.Chief Executive Officer Certification. National Digital Certification Agency. Tunis.
- Hisham Mohamed Abdel Wahab.Director of electronic signature, ITIDA.Egypt.
- Antti Vihavainen.Business development & professional services manager Valimo, Finland.
- Eng. Abdullah Nasser Alghannam.R&D Deputy Director National Information Centre.
- Eng. Fawaz Al Bassam.PKI administrator Aramco.
- Dr. Tim Moses.Senior Director of the Advanced Security Technology group Entrust. Canada.
- Antonio Colaianni.EMEA Sales Director Corestreet.
- Dr. Sami alhumaidi.Director of ECP Research Program, KACST.Saudi Arabia.
- Eng. Abdullah AlFathel.Head of Architecture & Security Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency.
- Eng. Mohammad M. Al-Mandeel.Assistant Secretary General for IT – CIO Council of Saudi Chambers (CSC).
- Olivier Ruff.PKI & SCM Consultant OPENTRUST.
- Dr. Sundeep Oberoi. Global Head of the Niche Technology Delivery Group (NTDG) in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
- Dr. Dhaifallah Al Zahrani. Deputy Governor for Legal Affairs Communications and Information Technology Commission(CITC).
- Ronny Bjones. Security Architect/ EMEA EPG Security lead Microsoft Corporation.
Registration and more info can be found here.
A computer forensics course will be held in Riyadh. Titled “SEC 508: Computer Forensics, Investigation, and Response” and will cost $4,500. You can register at this website. From the email invitation:
Government regulations and organizational policy might require computer forensic investigators to investigate intellectual property theft, harassment, and regulatory compliance. Investigators must master a variety of operating systems, investigation techniques, incident response tactics, and even legal issues in order to solve their cases. This course will teach you forensic techniques and tools in a hands-on setting for both Windows- and Linux-based investigations. This course emphasizes a hands-on approach where you will learn in-depth forensic functionality and how to solve a variety of incidents. Most incident response and security personnel will need to be familiar with core forensic techniques in order to respond to a variety of incidents for their organizations. This course teaches investigators how to follow the trail typical for intrusions and incidents that they might encounter. Incident responders should learn how intruders breached the infrastructure to identify additional systems/networks that are compromised. You will learn how to investigate traces left by complex attacks using the latest exploit methodologies. Learning more than just how to use a forensic tool, you will be able to demonstrate how the tool functions step-by-step. You will become skilled with tools, such as the Sleuth-kit, Foremost, and the HELIX Forensics Live CD. We will rapidly move on to advanced forensic and investigation analysis topics and techniques. This SANS hands-on technical course arms you with a deep understanding of the forensic methodology, tools, and techniques to solve even the most difficult case.
It will be a full week starting from Saturday May 23rd to Wednesday May 27th 2009 at Al-Muthana Hotel in Riyadh.