NeIC Security Training

FIRST Hands-On Classes

Wednesday — January 30th, 2013 09:30

Wednesday — January 30th, 2013 14:15

On February 6-7, 2013, NeIC (Nordic eInfrastructure Collaboration) and NSC will host a security course for experienced Linux administrators at Nordic HPC sites.

In this class, participants will learn basic incident response and forensic skills in a virtualized environment.

After a couple of introductory lectures on field forensics and incident response, most of the day will be taken up by a tournament where the participants form teams that are given full root access to simulated high-performance computing sites. Their task is to defend against and analyze realistic attacks of increasing sophistication, while keeping their systems up and running. The teams will be scored on their performance, and the winning team will be celebrated the most l33t admins.

The maximum number of participants will be 18, on a first come, first served basis.

Presenters

• Leif Nixon (European Grid Infrastructure)

  Leif Nixon heads the Incident Response Task Force of the European Grid Infrastructure, a distributed computing infrastructure spanning more than 300 resource centres in approximately 58 countries. He was probably crazy to take this job on.
  
  He is also serving as security officer for the National Supercomputer Centre at Linköping University, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing and the Nordic Data Grid Facility, among other bodies.
  
  Actually, his number of different hats is so great that he finds it difficult to keep his e-mail signature within the bounds of RFC 1849.