JP Haywood

As a Lead Security Consultant at Acumenis, JP actively supports organisations in identifying security risks and implementing controls and frameworks to enhance their security posture. This includes assisting organisations implement and test incident management procedures, as well as working with them when responding to real events.

JP’s experience includes working as an Information Security Manager at an Australian bank. During this time, JP achieved notable milestones, such as establishing an Information Security team and Security Operation Centre. JP’s professional qualifications include certifications in cyber operations, ethical hacking, incident response, and vulnerability management.

JP also actively engages with the Information Security community, contributing through organising local SecTalks chapter meetups, participates as a speaker at conferences, events, and podcasts, and is a mentor in the Australian Women in Security Network mentoring program.

Qazi Shamsud Tahmeed

Q S Tahmeed has more than 17 years of experience working in ISP/NSP entities in Bangladesh. He has strong knowledge and experience in the design, development & operation of scalable and resilient network infrastructure and services. His technical interest areas include Internet Routing & Security, OSPF, IPv6 Deployment, Network Automation, MPLS, Network Security, Segment Routing.

Tahmeed shares his knowledge as the retained community trainer in Bangladesh for APNIC. 

Md. Rafeeun Noby Babir

Md. Rafeeun Noby Babir is an accomplished professional in the field of Telecommunications and Information Technology. With an extensive experience in the network industry in Bangladesh, Babir has made significant contributions in Gateway Operations, specializing in International Internet Gateway (IIG), International Terrestrial Cable (ITC), National Internet Exchange (NIX) as well as Nationwide Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Babir’s expertise extends towards Network Servers and Security along with Routing and Switching. He possesses in-depth knowledge of BGP core networks. Along with a degree in ECE from KUET, he also holds certifications from industry-leading organizations like Cisco (CCNP, Specialist), Juniper (JNCIA), Huawei (HCIA), Red Hat (RHCE, RHCSA) and demonstrates his commitment to professional excellence.

Babir shares his knowledge as a volunteer community trainer for APNIC.

Insights on DNS Security

Course Overview

It is common knowledge that DNS is a critical Internet infrastructure that requires security enhancements. DNS servers can be abused to leverage malicious attacks and DNS information can be spoofed. That is why over the years, many protocols and standards were introduced around DNS data validation and privacy. 

This course will explore different insights on DNS security in the Asia-Pacific region, how we’re progressing with deploying DNSSEC, DNS privacy and other security protocols this year, as well as new efforts and initiatives on collectively promoting good DNS practices.

Course Outline

This course will cover the following topics:

• DNS Security Overview
• DNSSEC across the region
• DNS Best Practice

Course Materials

Anthony Vaccaro

Anthony has worked in IT for a decade, first at the University of Queensland and AusCERT before joining APNIC in 2019. He has experience working with variousUNIX-based server operating systems, although his expertise lies with Linux, and he enjoys understanding the internals of operating systems and finding the cause of bottlenecks, performance issues and other problems.

Anthony has had a background in security from an early age, being interested in hacking since he was a teenager. These days, he works as a defender and blue-teamer, but he has experience with web application pen testing and network-based attacks as well.

Defend Your Web Apps for Free with ModSecurity

Overview

Course Overview

Everyone uses web apps these days. They’re so easy to access, you can use them on your phone! But their openness and accessibility also means they’re constantly being probed for vulnerabilities by web scanners. In order to avoid being the next company to go through an expensive data breach, you need a WAF!

This course will go through the process of protecting a generic web application using the free, open source WAF called mod_security. We’ll demonstrate how to run mod_security on a Linux host running the Apache web server and give an outline of the types of common attacks that are prevented with just an hour or two of work.

Course Outline

This course will cover the following topics:

• Intro – Web applications & WAFs
• mod_security – introduction & features
• Demonstration of mod_security on a Linux server
• Advanced usage & customisation

Course Materials

Breach and Attack Simulation Tools

Overview

Course Overview

Information and Network Security is a broad topic, and as such this course will look at a variety of topics covering theory, technical controls, and organisational best practices.

The focus of the course is to introduce Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) concepts by explaining various tools and strategies to test defenses to determine the overall security posture of the organisation.

Course Outline

This course will cover the following topics:

• What is Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)
• Why Use BAS tools
• Overview of the MITRE ATT&CK Matrix
• List of Open Source tools
• Overview of the various tools
• Setting up a simulation

Course Materials

Corporate Device Management – Securing your employees devices

Overview

Course Overview

Networks are no longer the boundaries for security for end user devices. With more users now working from home, this webinar will show why even for small organisations, corporate Device Management is a must. It will cover the processes we did to deploy device management and the challenges we saw.

Course Outline

This course will cover the following topics:

• Why Device Management is important to your security framework for your workforce
• What type of device management software is out there?
• Getting the stakeholders involved
• Device agnostic organisation, is MDM possible?
• Scoping Device Management
• Communication
• Scoping device management
• Deploying the solution

Course Materials

APNIC’s Vulnerability Reporting Program

Overview

Course Overview

APNIC has been running a public Vulnerability Reporting Program (VRP) for just over a year now, where we have been inviting security researchers worldwide to responsibly report to us any vulnerabilities they find in our networks, servers, and services.

This course will follow the VRP from its first concept, through creation and the first year of operations. We’ll look at when went well, and what improvements were made along the way. We’ll also review the vulnerabilities reported, and examine them based on when they were reported, their severity, and who reported the issues to us. We’ll then cover some lessons learned from this project, and what APNIC is doing next to improve external vulnerability management.

Course Outline

This course will cover the following topics:

1. What is a Vulnerability Reporting/Disclosure Program? (VRP/VDP)
2. Why APNIC started a VRP
3. Process of creating a VRP
4. Review of vulnerabilities reported (count, severity, who reported them)
5. Lessons learned
6. What are the next steps after the VD

Course Materials

Etuate Cocker

Etuate Cocker is passionate about improving connectivity for remote islands in the Pacific. He has been a Technical Instructor, a Network Engineer, a Technical Specialist, a Researcher, lead a team of Network and Security Engineers at Spark NZ Ltd, Technical Engineer/Trainer and currently works as a Security and Networks Consultant Manager for Exclusive Networks Australia and New Zealand.

‘Etuate is well versed in Internet Routing and IPv6 deployment. 

‘Etuate shares his knowledge as a volunteer community trainer.