Whether you're securing your home network or a corporate campus an Intrusion Detection Sensor (IDS) is a great tool to detect and identify threats on your network such as brute force attacks, malware infections, and active intrusions by malicious actors. In this talk we will discuss where to place your IDS for maximum effectiveness, a brief discussion of some IDS solutions on the market, and walk through a basic IDS configuration live on stage.
Nick graduated from Penn State in 2010 where he studied cyber security risk analysis. He spent some time working for the Department of Homeland Security studying the risk posed to the United States by terrorist activities, moving to San Antonio in 2012 to start working at Rackspace Hosting in the Network Security department. While working at Rackspace Hosting Nick designed and configured Intrusion Detection Sensor (IDS) solutions for hundreds of customers, including helping with the incident response and analysis of alerts generated by those devices. Since leaving Rackspace Hosting, Nick has been working for numerous other companies in the local area tasked with designing and implementing an IDS solution to monitor traffic for hosted and local environments looking for attacks and other signs of compromise. Nick last presented his talk titled "Risk Analysis for Dummies" at The Last Hope in New York City in July of 2010.