So for those of you who didnt know about a little show being held over the next few days at olympia , london , Infosec (europe) is a major attraction for the latest in technologies of security/AV/IDS/etc.

check out www.infosec.co.uk

So walking in the front door yesterday (making sure all bluetooth devices are off to be extra paranoid) there was just a heave of Technobabble being echo-ed around the room.

The first few stands where the small palyers who have proberly spent all their marketing budget for the year on this stand, then we get to microsoft stand where there are no fewer than 15 microsoft staff showing off the latest "vision".
Before walking away id thought id give them 2 mins to impress, and to my dismay i was!.
i dont want to bore you too much but basically they put forward their purposal of windows update with the forthcoming WUS, SUS. anyhow basically there is a "tree" diagram where windows update site is at the top, just below is Microsoft security baseline analsyer 2.0 (not even in beta yet) , parellell to that is WUs/SUS and below that is clients in a corporate network.

next we where wisked away by our microsoft account manager to see the new ISA2004 (now i know what ur thinking) but this was a new breed of microsoft ISA server, in the fact that it didnt run on WINDOWS, yes it runs directly on a hardware box (im guessing linux based but they couldnt comment), this is the one to watch i am guessing. see www.intechnology.co.uk

zone-h was also there with a "hacking challengE" , alongside all the major players, symantect, mcaffee (which had some very appealing female staff on their stand), NOD had a stand! and also Norman.

There where a few new technologies that i havnt seen before like:
using the IDS system without the intrusion and replacing it with "virus signitures" or even spyware sigs , so that in theory no AV client would be put on a machine but put in between a firewall and your internal LAN.

Patch management also seems to be still a big player in this field with vulnerability assessment technology , however the only system to impress me was a stand whose name i caannot remeber at present (will have a look easy to find as they have a pig logo)
but basically it was a complete webGUI to SNORT (yes complete), and it would show who is attacking what, if the system intended for the attack was actually vulnerable , and if so would issue API commands to ANY firewall/device to block this from ahppening

sorry have to cut this short becuase i have a day of work to catch up on but i recommend if you can , get down to infosec for a good nose around

:-)

p.s. sorry for the typo's im on a oldish laptop

Wish I lived in Europe. A well wrote observation, andydis.

how many free pens did you get, i got 15 and a laser pen . (oh and lots of sweets lol.. i cant belive M$ was givin cups full of M+M's out )

I went on tuesday, and saw the speach from MS on security in the pillar room. What day did you go mate?... oh and supposadly on tuesday early Bill Gates was there showing off longhorn! (I missed this as I arrived an hour late )

Buz

i went on tuesday 26th too, got about 5 pens :-( was tooo busy watching all the ladies on mcaffee stand :-)

was inviting to RSA, Norman and another 1's after party but had to get train back :-(

man cool events like this arent hosted in the U.S. .... or are they?