Upcoming Presentations
Currently, I do not have any public speaking events scheduled (although a CFP was submitted/pending in Dec 2011....)
Past Presentations & Material
Presentations given as Jeff Forristal
Network design for ineffective HTTP traffic filtering
CanSecWest, 2009; view presentation slides
Lightning Talk: Network Design for Effective HTTP Traffic Filtering
Microsoft BlueHat, Fall 2008
Security Trade-Offs and Pitfalls in Virtualized Platforms
Microsoft BlueHat, Fall 2007
Tips, Tricks, and Ask the Expert Using SPI Products
SPICon 2007
Securing Your Perimeter
eBusiness Conference & Expo, 2000
With Kevin Novak and Greg Shipley
Past Presentations & Material
Presentations given as Rain Forest Puppy
CanSecWest 2001
March 28-30 in Vancouver, Canada. Talk topic included "why whisker sucks", and introduced the concept of an assessment proxy. View archived presentation
BlackHat Asia 2001
April 23-27 in Hong Kong and Singapore. Talk included a basic "why the web is vulnerable", followed by a look into RFProxy. View archived early-release presentation
LSM 2001
July 4-7, Bordeaux, France. Focused on "common CGI coding mistakes", and was geared slightly more towards developers.
BlackHat Vegas 2001
July 10-11, Las Vegas, Nevada. Basically a "what the hell has RFP been working on?" talk, which included the roadmap and peek into the future of libwhisker, RFProxy, whisker 2.0, and some other projects. View archived early-release presentation
HackExpo 2002
Mar 12-14, Melbourne, Australia; Mar 19-21, Sydney, Australia. I gave multiple talks covering honeypots, SQL tampering, and tips/tools to enhance security.
CanSecWest 2002
May 1-3, Vancouver, Canada. Followed up last year's "why whisker sucks" talk with a "finally tools that don't suck" review, including the release of whisker 2.0. View archived presentation
BlackHat Vegas 2002
Aug 1, Las Vegas. Talk was entitled "Novell: the forgotten OS", and focused on various web-related vulnerabilities found in default Netware installations. View archived presentation
Hack 2002 Singapore
Aug 28-30, Singapore. Focused on common web problems and some tips on how to better protect webservers.
Hack 2002 Hong Kong
Sept 3-5, Hong Kong. The talk was two parts: first a demo of common problems, and then a talk which focused on tips to better secure web servers.
Hivercon 2002
Nov 26-27, Dublin, Ireland. Discussed uses of HTTP/web application fingerprinting. View archived presentation
Chico State University 2003
I was invited to give a talk regarding the ethics of security disclosure to the computer science student population. View archived presentation
HackExpo 2003
Aug 13-15, Melbourne, Australia; Aug 18-20, Sydney, Australia. I gave multiple talks covering security misconceptions. View archived presentation