PSNC Security Team

Bypassing firewalls in Windows systems

On 18th June 2009, PSNC Security Team members for the first time in the history of MIC training program organized a BYOL-style security workshop. Mateusz Drygas, Marcin Jerzak and Jakub Tomaszewski prepared especially for this occasion an actual real system attack scenario. This scenario was then carried out by the participants step by step. The details about the target system as well as the tips about its vulnerabilities were successively revealed - each one followed by a couple of minutes delay for the participants to enable them overcoming security measures in practice. This way the entrants were forced to actively participate in the workshop and, most importantly, to understand the significance of their individual initiative in the bughunting process. Each participant had his own remote target-system kept on the server in a separate virtual machine box as well as the attacker-system - an especially prepared bootable pendrive which everyone had been given at the beginning of the workshop. This way the participants didn't disturb each other during the session. This training was the second part of a Bypassing Windows Firewalls series (the first part took place six months earlier, on 18th December 2008 as a introduction to this one).

For further information - please download the prepared presentation (in Polish):

• M. Drygas, M. Jerzak, J. Tomaszewski Bypassing firewalls in Windows (1.7 MB)

Live show at the PGCIC meeting in Poznań

Members of PSNC Security Team, Marcin Jerzak and Jakub Tomaszewski, gave a performance at the Polish-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce meeting on 15th October in Sheraton Hotel (Poznań).

For further information the following presentation is available (in Polish only).

• Marcin Jerzak, Jakub Tomaszewski: Data loss prevention - Facts and Myths (0.7 MB)

Secure 2008 conference - presentation

Representatives of PSNC Security Team, Blazej Miga and Gerard Frankowski, appeared at the SECURE 2008 conference (2-3 October 2008, Hotel Hyatt Regency Warsaw).

For more informations - read the prepared materials (in Polish).

• Blazej Miga, Gerard Frankowski: 13.05.2008 (2.8 MB)

Security Team of PSNC is a dedicated group of highly skilled professionals. The main goal of the Team is to enforce an appropriate security level of the IT infrastructure at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center as well as Polish Optical Internet Network PIONIER. Besides of the operational work, members of the team are also engaged in several research projects in which their knowledge and experience is often invaluable.