We all wish we could always build firewall policy by asking application administrators and developers questions. Unfortunately, far too often unknown and undocumented protocols provide a murky and unfortunate foundation for critical applications. This talk will tackle how to successfully build firewall policies from examining traffic patterns and logs based on the real world experience in enterprise environments.

Kevin Nassery
Kevin A. Nassery is a hands-on technical architect, who has been an active Unix systems, network, and security engineer and consultant for more than a decade. After serving for more than four years as principal infrastructure architect for a major online presence, he recently returned to his passion of security consulting. At present, he is a RHCE, CISSP, and a graduate student at Depaul University, where he studies Computer, Information, and Network security. He is currently a senior security consultant with Consciere LLC.