Our March chapter meeting is on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 at 5:45PM. Please RSVP if you plan on attending!
Flight Deck Information Assurance Auditing
Abstract: Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization (NATOPS) is said to be “written in blood.” NATOPS was created in 1961 after nearly 50 years of the US Navy flying aircraft. The extensive system was created to stop the extreme failures that resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives and billions of dollars in loss.
Between 2015 and 2017, WitFoo researchers worked with organizations from higher education, Fortune 500, healthcare and mid-market to test NATOPS quality assurance (QA) approaches in cyber security and information security auditing.
In this session, the following experiments and findings will be discussed:
- Defining the correct “unit of work” in security operations (borrowing from Maintenance Action Forms.)
- “Data Evolution” of extremely technical information that can be understood by executives (and Admirals).
- Ongoing, organic metric collection and analysis in contrast with inspections and audits
- Separating human audits and architecture audits
- Improving auditing using NATOPS Readiness Inspections approaches
The session will include data and demonstrations of the findings.
Speaker Biographies: Charles Herring, WitFoo Chief Technology Officer
Charles’ dedication to maturing the craft of InfoSec is built on a diverse career path across the industry. He started his career in InfoSec in the US Navy in 2002 serving as the Network Security Officer at the US Naval Postgraduate School. After leaving active duty, he was a contributing product reviewer for InfoWorld magazine focusing on network security products. Charles spent 7 years running Herring Consulting, a company dedicated to process orchestration, data sharing, and marketing. In 2012, Charles joined the Lancope team as a pre-sales engineer, promoted to Consulting Security Architect and later as Strategic Account Manager following the acquisition of Lancope by Cisco. In 2014, Charles partnered with veterans of the military, law enforcement and cybersecurity to research new approaches to improve the craft of cybersecurity operations. In 2016, that research resulted in the forming of WitFoo. When not working with cybersecurity heroes, Charles enjoys SCUBA divining with his wife, Mai.
Schedule
5:45-6:00PM Networking, dinner
6:00-7:15PM Presentation
7:15-7:45PM Q&A
Location Information
Metro Health IT Facility
985 Gezon Parkway (across from Target loading dock)
Wyoming, MI, 49519