Black Hat Abu Dhabi Offering Ten Intensive Hands on Training Courses Including New Courses on Mobile Hacking and PHP Security

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Black Hat Abu Dhabi Offering Ten Intensive Hands on Training Courses Including New Courses on Mobile Hacking and PHP Security

ABU DHABI, UAE, October 27, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

          Two days of training sessions offer essential knowledge and
skills to enterprises against today's threats; new course on mobile hacking

    Black Hat Abu Dhabi will offer ten hands-on training sessions over two
days from 12-13 December 2011 at Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi. The training
courses are aimed at equipping IT security professionals with the skills and
knowledge to help combat today's evolving threats.

    The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) represented by the UAE
Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT), in cooperation with Khalifa
University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR) has partnered with
UBM Middle East for the second year in a row to bring Black Hat Abu Dhabi to
Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi from 12th to 15th December 2011.

    With security threats becoming more sophisticated every year, this
year's courses focus on cyber security as well as forensic security. The
program includes a two day Cyber Network Defence Bootcamp as well as a
workshop on Malware Forensics & Incident Response.

    The full list of sessions includes:

    Advanced PHP Hacking

    This session will focus on advanced PHP hacking techniques, that might
be used by attackers in order to penetrate and compromise remote networks,
systems, services, applications, code.

    Assessing and Exploiting Web Applications

    Using open source tools to perform web application assessments, this
course will take attendees through the process of application assessment
using the open source tools included in the Samurai Web Testing Framework
Live CD.

    Cyber Network Defence Bootcamp

    This focuses on the progression from incident identification,
investigation and malware analysis to explaining to management why it
matters.

    The Exploit Laboratory

    Learn how to expose the inner mechanisms of exploits and how they work.
The class is highly hands-on and very lab intensive.

    Hacking by Numbers: Unplugged Edition

    Hacking By Numbers "Unplugged Edition" is the ultimate wifi hacking
course. With a strong focus on results the course outlines 3 broad offensive
scenarios for wifi hacking and then presents participants with the
background knowledge, methodologies, tools and thinking skills required to
successfully breach security in each of those scenarios.

    Incident Response: Black Hat Edition by MANDIANT

    This is specifically designed for information security professionals and
analysts who respond to computer security incidents.

    Infrastructure Attacktecs & Defentecs: Hacking Cisco Networks

    This class will cover a wide variety of the publicly-available exploit
tools and how they can be used specifically against a Cisco infrastructure.
A majority of the class time will be spent in practical labs.

    Malware Forensics & Incident Response

    McAfee's Malware Forensics & Incident Response Education (MFIRE)
workshop is a proactive weapon to help normalize your environment after a
negative event has occurred.

    Mobile Hacking

    Brand new, never before seen mobile hacking course that will cover
multiple smart-phone technologies and development environments.

    TCP/IP Weapons School 3.0

    Learn how networks can be abused and subverted, while analyzing the
attacks, methods and traffic that make it happen.

    To attend and to take advantage of the limited spaces available at Black
Hat Abu Dhabi 2011; delegates must register at: http://www.blackhat.com
or for more information contact matthew.robarts@ubm.com.

    Notes to the editor

    For more information please see http://www.blackhat.com

    Individuals, associations, government bodies, academic institutions and
companies interested in finding out more about Black Hat Abu Dhabi should
contact the organisers, UBM Middle East for information, on +971-2-406-4471
or email matthew.robarts@ubm.com

    Black Hat briefings and training is the largest and most important
security conference series in the world. Black Hat Abu Dhabi is organised by
UBM Middle East on behalf of TechWeb, a division of UBM.

    Media, for all enquires including the knowledge partner reports and to
register to attend please contact:

    Mita Srinivasan, Market Buzz, mita@themarketbuzz.net, +971-4-3625484

    For other marketing related enquiries:

    Bryan Espie, Marketing Director, UBM Middle East,
bryan.espie@ubm.com or +971-2-406-4471.

    Further information on UBM Middle East can be found at
http://www.ubm.com.

Source: UBM Middle East

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