UW Both­ell Com­put­ing and Soft­ware Sys­tems is pro­vid­ing host­ing as a “Regional Hub” for the upcom­ing Tracer FIRE train­ing event.

LANL DOE Spon­sored TRAINING EVENT: Feb­ru­ary, 4–8 2013 ONLINE
Regional Hub:  UW Both­ell UW1-321 (Reg­is­ter Sep­a­rately Due to Space Lim­i­ta­tions)
Who Can Par­tic­i­pate?: Cyber Defend­ers in DOE, other gov­ern­ment agen­cies, crit­i­cal infra­struc­ture, and col­lege students

Tracer FIRE (Foren­sic Inci­dent Response Exer­cise) is a four-day even that aims to empower cyber secu­rity respon­ders (cyber defend­ers in DOE, other gov­ern­ment agen­cies, crit­i­cal infra­struc­ture, and col­lege stu­dents) with skills and tech­niques to rec­og­nize and dis­sect nefar­i­ous net­work activ­ity and mali­cious soft­ware. These events include par­al­lel lab-oriented train­ing tracks fol­lowed by a capture-the-flag con­test to test newly acquired skills and knowl­edge in a chal­leng­ing and moti­vat­ing environment.

The exer­cise con­sists of 2 days of inten­sive train­ing on a sin­gle sub­ject, fol­lowed by a 2½-day game in which con­tes­tants are placed on a team and must use their new and exist­ing skills to com­pete with other teams for points across mul­ti­ple cat­e­gories. Tracer FIRE is part of the Tracer series of events to build the cyber defense community.

Tracer FIRE Reg­is­tra­tion: http://csr.lanl.gov/tf/register.html
UWB Site Reg­is­tra­tion:  https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/lareber/190966

Per­sonal Equip­ment:
Par­tic­i­pants must sup­ply their own lap­top and headphones.

Trav­el­ing to UW Bothell:

http://www.uwb.edu/visitors

For ques­tions, con­tact tracerfire@uwb.edu or lreber@uwb.edu

WASHINGTON MILITARY DEPARTMENT

JOINT FORCE HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON NATIONAL GUARD CAMP MURRAY, WASHINGTON  98430–5000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Decem­ber 5, 2012

CAMP MURRAY, Wash. — The Wash­ing­ton Army National Guard is part­ner­ing with the Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton Both­ell Com­put­ing & Soft­ware Sys­tems and the Cen­ter for Infor­ma­tion Assur­ance and Cyber­se­cu­rity to host the Cyber Defense Chal­lenge this week­end at Camp Mur­ray.  Inter­ested media are wel­come to visit and cover the event at 10:00 a.m. on Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 8 on Camp Murray.

The Cyber Defense Chal­lenge is the sec­ond of a three event series designed to chal­lenge and sharpen cyber defend­ers from the mil­i­tary and civil­ian communities.

“This col­lab­o­ra­tion between the Guard and the Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton is one of many essen­tial part­ner­ships among the pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tors designed to enhance cyber defense skills.  Pro­tect­ing crit­i­cal infra­struc­ture and ser­vices is in everyone’s best inter­est,” said Major Gen­eral Bret Daugh­erty, the Adju­tant Gen­eral and com­man­der of the Wash­ing­ton National Guard.

Approx­i­mately 50 peo­ple will par­tic­i­pate, which will include col­lege stu­dents, a few high school stu­dents, civil­ian state employ­ees, and Wash­ing­ton National Guard mem­bers.  Par­tic­i­pants will be briefed on recent lessons learned and break into 8–10 per­son teams.  Teams will work together to defend dif­fer­ent aspects of a hypo­thet­i­cal elec­tric power company’s net­work, while assigned oppos­ing forces attack the net­work.  The goal is to com­pel net­work defend­ers to con­tin­u­ally think through dif­fi­cult chal­lenges, and find inno­v­a­tive solu­tions in defend­ing the network.

The Wash­ing­ton National Guard has units and per­son­nel ded­i­cated to cyber defense in its Air and Army branches.  The citizen-soldiers and air­men of the Wash­ing­ton National Guard are ded­i­cated to the mis­sion of safe­guard­ing lives and prop­erty in Wash­ing­ton State, and serv­ing as sen­tinels for free­dom over­seas. We are Neigh­bors Help­ing Neigh­bors through a Tra­di­tion of Service.

Inter­ested media are requested to RSVP to pao@washingtonguard.org

Please visit us at:

http://washingtonguard.org

www.facebook.com/washingtonguard

www.youtube.com/user/WANationalGuardPAO

http://twitter.com/WA_NATL_GUARD

http://www.flickr.com/photos/washingtonguard/

Fri­day Octo­ber 12th
9:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Lunch included
Noon to 1:00 pm
Cock­tail Mixer
5:00 to 7:00 pm

Nor­man Marks will speak on “Rad­i­cal Changes In Tech­nol­ogy: How Will They Affect
Busi­ness And The Role Of IT Risk, Secu­rity And Assur­ance”. from 10am to Noon.
Nel­son Gibbs dis­cusses IT Gov­er­nance and the appli­ca­tion of COBIT 5 from 1 to 5pm
$150 Both ses­sions. $120 After­noon ses­sion only.
All atten­dees are wel­come for the lunch buf­fet from Noon to 1pm.

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Reg­is­tra­tion

Upcom­ing drill on earth­quake pre­pared­ness, The Great Wash­ing­ton Shake­out, that UW and many other insti­tu­tions are par­tic­i­pat­ing in.

At the Great Shake­out web­site, there is a nice video of “Drop, cover, hold on” that includes the ratio­nale for it.

http://www.shakeout.org/washington/dropcoverholdon/

Earth­quake Aware­ness &

Per­sonal Pre­pared­ness Training

Tues­day Octo­ber 2, 2012

11:30am — 12:30pm

UW Tower, Auditorium

Out­reach Booth

Fea­tur­ing the Wheel of Misfortune

Stop by for a spin!

11:00am — 2:00pm

UW Tower Café

Check out our Earth­quakes web­page to learn more about risks in the Pacific North­west and how you can become bet­ter prepared.

Sim­ple Flyer_UW Tower

Mar­ket­ing Flyer

Greet­ings! The attached flyer is in rela­tion to an upcom­ing open house at the William Fac­tory Small Busi­ness Incu­ba­tor. Please feel free to redis­trib­ute this to those with an inter­est in tech­nol­ogy train­ing and entrepreneurship.

Thanks!

Bob Bunge

South Sound Cyber Sport
“Con­nect­ing stu­dents to careers through high-tech competitions.”

Hel­loWorld Flyer

SSCyberSport@outlook.com

Visit us on Face­book at SSCy­ber­Sport!

On Twit­ter: #SSCyberSport

Cyber 2012 Draft Invite

Mark your cal­en­dars for the upcom­ing Region 6 CIP Workgroup’s Cyber Secu­rity Sem­i­nar and Table­top! The objec­tive of this work­shop is to edu­cate regional and pri­vate sec­tor lead­ers both within and out­side of the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy (IT) field on the grow­ing and chang­ing cyber secu­rity threats to our crit­i­cal infra­struc­ture. It will inform stake­hold­ers on the need for cyber plans and the inter­de­pen­den­cies of our regional crit­i­cal infra­struc­tures and their depen­dence on IT. Regional pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor CIP and IT pro­fes­sion­als in the region will gather the fol­low­ing day for a table­top exer­cise to explore cyber plans and their impact make rec­om­men­da­tions for improvement.