Upcoming Presentations
Currently, I do not have any public speaking events scheduled.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.