Incident Response and Early Warning Initiatives in Brazil

Security workshop

Tuesday — October 4th, 2005 15:20

This presentation will show Incident Response Initiatives in Brazil, specially the The Early Warning Capabilty Based on a Network of Distributed Honeypots.

Presenters

• Marcelo H P C Chaves, CERT.br

• Marcelo Chaves (CERT.br — The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee)

  Marcelo Chaves is a Security Analyst at CERT.br, the Brazilian National CERT, maintained by NIC.br, from the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee. He has a degree in Computer Science, and a Masters in Applied Computing, focused on network security, by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Marcelo worked as an incident handler and currently is more involved with R&D, specially with the development of tools, based on honeypots and honeynets, to better understand current attack trends, correlating this data with incidents reported to CERT.br.

  Marcelo has been a speaker in several national and international events, talking about many different information security topics, including incident handling, honeypots, online fraud, and spam.