I’m almost back to DC from my trip to St Louis for the DoD Cyber Crime conference. In case you don’t already know, Jason Luttgens and I came here to finally release our visual log-analysis tool, Highlighter (www.mandiant.com/software/highlighter.htm).

We received very positive feedback and we were even able to give our presentation twice, thanks to Paul Alvarez for organizing the Birds of a Feather meeting later in the day. Check out blog.mandiant.com it the link above for more details on Highlighter.

So far I have been poorly impressed with the presentations I attended. Talking to some coworkers, it’s possible that I simply wouldn’t find good proactive speakers here even though the forensics/IR speakers were more interesting. C’est la vie, it’s all good.

I enjoyed the keynotes by Jeff Moss (of Defcon fame) and Johnny Long (No-Tech Hacking). Mandiant had me, Jason Luttgens, Nick Harbour, Kelcey Tietjen, Wendi Rafferty, Travis Reese, and David Ross as speakers presenting. That’s just how we role!