BayThreat 2012, the third annual information security conference in the South Bay of San Francisco, will be held December 7-8 at The Firehouse Brewery in downtown Sunnyvale, Calif. This technical conference is well attended by security professionals from the top technology companies in the South Bay.  Randy Ivener and Joe Karpenko, security specialists from Cisco Systems, will present "Network Threat Defense"at 10 a.m. Saturday at the conference.

Botnets, worms, and denial of service (DoS) attacks increasingly threaten the availability of every network, yet few network engineers realize the security benefits of leveraging network infrastructure to handle these attacks. "Network Threat Defense" will address how to build a more secure infrastructure and how to leverage inherent network features, such as NetFlow, to provide a full range of attack handling mechanisms. During the presentation, Ivener and Karpenko will briefly cover the following fundamental network security topics:

• State of network security
• Threat models for IP networks
• Incident response
• Secure network design
• Device hardening
• Introduction to NetFlow

Following the presentation, there will be a hands-on lab session that covers infrastructure protection techniques and best practices to identify and respond to network attacks using routers and firewalls.

For a complete list of speakers, visit the Bay Threat website.

Please join us and other attending security professionals on December 7th and 8th, 2012, for BayThreat 2012!