The RFID Guardian Project is an initiative to put practical open-source HW/SW tools for RFID Security and Privacy into the hands of security consultants and the general public alike. This talk will discuss Radio Frequency Identification, its security and privacy implications, and will provide the newest information about Version 4 of the RFID Guardian, which we intend to launch soon to the general public.

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Dr. Melanie Rieback is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, in the group of Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum. Melanie’s research concerns the security and privacy of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, and she leads multidisciplinary research teams on RFID security (RFID Malware) and RFID privacy management (RFID Guardian) projects. Her research has attracted worldwide media attention, appearing in the New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters, UPI, Computerworld, CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and many other print, broadcast, and online news outlets. Melanie’s research has received several awards (Best Paper: IEEE PerCom ’06, Best Paper: USENIX Lisa ’06, NWO I/O Prize, VU Mediakomeet, ISOC Award finalist), and Melanie has also served as an invited expert for RFID security discussions with both the American and Dutch governments. In a past life, Melanie also worked on the Human Genome Project at the Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research.

Nagios is a useful tool for server monitoring. Can it be effective for monitoring networks? Cacti is an efficient tool for monitoring devices with SNMP. Can it be turned into an effective tool for generating meaningful notifications? We’ll look at the strengths and weaknesses of each tool and see if a combination of both could be ‘right’ for the purpose.

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Dave Blunt has been using Nagios (or Netsaint before it) since 2001 and Cacti since 2004, for server, application, and network monitoring. He has worked at GroundWork Open Source in the Services organization since 2005 delivering deployments of GroundWork Monitor – an open source based monitoring solution that has Nagios as a core component.