The ISSA-NWA March 2007 meeting will be held at 11:00 am at the Whole Hog Café in Bentonville. Google map to the Cafe.

The meeting should last about two hours. You may purchase your lunch and eat it during the meeting.

Our agenda will be chapter business (about 45 minutes), followed by a technical and strategic discussion on Windows Vista BitLocker (about 1 hour).

BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature available in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate for client computers and in Windows Server “Longhorn”. BitLocker is Microsoft’s response to one of our top customer requests: address the very real threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen or inappropriately decommissioned PC hardware with a tightly integrated solution in the Windows Operating System. The BitLocker Drive Encryption feature of Windows Vista poses an interesting set of security and performance requirements on the encryption algorithm used for the disk data, much of which we will examine.

This discussion will be facilitated by Christopher Beasley, Enterprise Strategy Consultant for Microsoft.

ISSA "1+1" Membership Drive

Please bring a colleague to the meeting. If that new member joins ISSA and:

You're an ISSA General or CISO Member.
You recruit a new ISSA General Member.
Your name is in the section: "referred by a member."

You and the new member each get an opportunity for:

Round trip airfare
Hotel accommodations
Information Security Conference Fees
300 US Dollars for expenses
Dinner with the ISSA Board of Directors (if attending a CISO Executive Forum)
Picture and interview for the ISSA Journal

Article Review:

Information Week published an intriguing article on the cyber-criminal economy.

On the cyber-criminal black market:
Credit cards with their pin numbers sell for nearly $500
Credit card numbers with security code and expiration date are worth $6-$24
Billing data, including account number, address, Social Security number, home address, and birth date, fetches $78-$294
Trojan programs to steal online account information will set a hacker back $980-$4,900. A computer program to exploit a flaw in Windows new Vista operating system was being sold for $50,000.