<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For our webpub web developers, this <A href="https://www.sans.org/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">SANS</FONT></A> training might come in handy. Its a <A href="http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/web/sans/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">SANS Security 519 Workshop</FONT></A> on web application security. Quoting from an email from EDUCAUSE:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444">“This two day workshop focuses on the latest tools and techniques to provide data to those intended while keeping out the bad guys. Students will have the opportunity for hands-on experience detecting and preventing cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection along with increasing their understanding of authentication, session management systems and their vulnerabilities and how to best defend.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> …Who should attend this workshop?</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><UL><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Web application system and security administrators and architects.</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">Individuals responsible for designing, implementing and managing Web</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;"> applications.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Anyone interested in techniques for securing Web applications.</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444">If you are familiar with Windows and Linux operating systems and have some experience with hands-on security tools, this two day web application security workshop is the right course for you.”</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> The price is </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><I>very</I></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> favorable for EDU participants ($375 for MIT, regular price is $1,745). Its June 25 and 26, 2007 at the </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.vcu.edu/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">Virginia Commonwealth University</FONT></A> in Richmond, Virginia.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> Thanks to Tim McGovern and Rob Smyser from IS&T’s </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/security/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">IT Security Support</FONT></A> and Data Analysis and Presentation for this post idea. If you’ve got one, send it to <A href="mailto:webpub@mit.edu"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#236796">webpub@mit.edu</FONT></A>.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Care to comment on this post? Its easy, anyone with certificates can login - so go to <A href="http://webpub.mit.edu/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">webpub.mit.edu </FONT></A>and share your thoughts!<BR></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">See you ’round the ‘net…</SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> Lisa</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><BR></SPAN><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Lisa C. Mayer</DIV><DIV>Web and Database Consultant, DCAD</DIV><DIV>Information Services and Technology (IS&T)</DIV><DIV>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DIV><DIV>Room N42-240C</DIV><DIV>Cambridge, MA 02139</DIV><DIV>617-452-4225</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:lmayer@mit.edu">lmayer@mit.edu</A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>