Announcing a new Meetup for NYC4SEC!

What: September Meet-up - Back to School Edition

When: Thursday, September 16, 2010 7:00 PM

Where: Pace University
1 Pace Plaza 2nd floor, Lecture Hall North
New York, NY 10038

Grab your TrapperKeepers (I'm rockin' the red Lambo), your Saved By the Bell book covers and Garbage Pail Kids cards to stick on the inside of your locker because it's back to school time.

Pace University is our gracious host and our speaker will be Ovie Carroll who will be in town teaching a SANS Forensics 408: Computer Forensic Essentials Course here in NYC! If you would like to attend the course Ovie has provided a special offer for a class discount! Use "COINS-OC" to get 10% off and to make sure to get into class! http://www.sans.org/new-york-forensics-2010-cs/description.php?tid=4207

More details to follow on specific room location but please get your parents to sign off on your NYC4SEC permission slips for Thursday, September 16th @ 7pm

About Ovie Carroll:
Ovie Carroll has over 20 years of federal law enforcement experience. Ovie was a special agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) and Chief of the Washington Field Office Computer Investigations and Operations Branch responsible for investigating all national level computer intrusions into USAF computer systems. Following his career with the AFOSI he was the Special Agent in Charge of the Postal Inspector General's computer crimes unit where he was responsible for all computer intrusion investigations and for providing all computer forensic analysis in support of USPS-OIG investigations. Ovie is currently the Director for the Cybercrime Lab at the Department of Justice, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) and an adjunct professor at George Washington University teaching computer crime investigations. In addition to his career fighting computer crime, Ovie has conducted investigations into a variety of offenses including murder, fraud, bribery, theft, gangs and narcotics.

Mr. Carroll is also the host of the CyberSpeak Podcast - http://cyberspeak.libsyn.com/

About Pace:
http://www.pace.edu
For more than 100 years, Pace University has been preparing students to become leaders in their fields by providing an education that combines exceptional academics with professional experience and the New York advantage. Pace has three campuses, in New York City, Westchester, and White Plains. A private metropolitan university, Pace enrolls approximately 13,500 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lienhard School of Nursing, Lubin School of Business, School of Education, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, and School of Law.

Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems:
http://www.pace.edu/pace/seidenberg//research/labs/information-assurance-education-and-research-center/

About SANS: http://www.sans.org/
SANS is the most trusted and by far the largest source for information security training and security certification in the world. It also develops, maintains, and makes available at no cost, the largest collection of research documents about various aspects of information security, and it operates the Internet's early warning system - the Internet Storm Center.

The SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. Its programs now reach more than 165,000 security professionals around the world. A range of individuals from auditors and network administrators, to chief information security officers are sharing the lessons they learn and are jointly finding solutions to the challenges they face. At the heart of SANS are the many security practitioners in varied global organizations from corporations to universities working together to help the entire information security community.

RSVP to this Meetup:
http://www.nyc4sec.info/calendar/14520625/