NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 25 June 2008 NYLUG: Mark Tolliver on Application Security for Open Source Software

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From: NYLUG Announcements <info@nylug.org>
To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce@nylug.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:45:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Presents (6/25) Mark Tolliver on Application Security for Open Source Software

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
6:30pm-8:00 PM
IBM
590 Madison Ave, 12th Floor
corner of 57th Street

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Mark Tolliver
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Application Security for Open Source Software

Open Source has been a blessing to the development community. However
undocumented open source now permeates production code. While IP issues
are the most obvious concerns, security has become THE big concern. You
can't patch what you do not know you have.

Firms are finding out that they have 5x the amount of open source they
thought and hundreds of undocumented modules. Palamida technology
identifies these, matches them to the vulnerability data base and supplies
a tool suite for maintenance and good housekeeping going forward.

Mark Tolliver's talk, while providing a glimpse of the product, will
include case studies and examples of open source caused disruptions. From
popular ones which did minimal damage like the iPhone hack to an example of
one that casued a very well known security breach at a household name
financial institution.

Mark will also share examples of how major firms use Palamida ( such as
Microsoft in their M&A team) to major enterprises.

About Mark Tolliver:
Mark Tolliver brings more than 30 years of experience in the high-tech
industry to his position as CEO of Palamida, a San Francisco-based
software company focused on software intellectual property management and
compliance.

Prior to Palamida, Tolliver was executive vice president, marketing and
strategy, and chief strategy officer for Sun Microsystems. In that role
he was responsible for corporate marketing, product and business strategy,
mergers and acquisitions, industry marketing and independent software
vendor (ISV) programs

Tolliver was with Sun for ten years, previously serving as president and
general manager of iPlanet. Established in November 1998, iPlanet was a
strategic alliance between Sun and AOL Time Warner focused on Internet
infrastructure software, and upon completion of the original alliance
agreement in March 2002, became a division of Sun.

Meeting Location:
Please note that this meeting will be held at IBM, 590 Madison Ave,
12th floor, corner of 57th Street, and not at Google. This is
the building with the IBM logo on the front of the building.

Map:
http://tighturl.com/m

Books!!!
Our friends at Prentice-Hall kindly provide us with review copies
of various new titles. One of these could be yours, all you have
to do is agree to review the book within a reasonable period of
time.

Swag (Give Away):
During/after the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be given
away.

Stammtisch:
After the meeting ... You may wish to join up with other NYLUGgers
over at TGI Fridays located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th
Street, second floor. Northeast corner.

Python Workshops:
We are rounding up a group that wants to learn Python. This would
be a great time to attend our workshop.

The workshops meet every other Tuesday, at the NY Public Library,
Hudson Park Branch. 66 Leroy St. NY NY from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Next meetings are June 24th followed by July 8th.
See the calendar at: http://tighturl.com/fp

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version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good
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