2010/7/28: Ryan VanRiper received GIAC certification in Penetration Testing at SANS. During the week long training session in Phoenix Ryan lead a team of 5 other penetration testers to victory during the Capture The Flag challenge on the last day. Six other teams participated as well including seasoned government agencies, and currently practicing Pentesting organizations. As a reward Ryan received a autographed copy of instructor Ed Skoudis's "CounterHack Reloaded" book and remarked later in email after the event that Ryan showed "excellent skills and intuitive grasp of attack concepts! Kudos to you!".

Member, Technical Staff (Java software development)

Adventium Labs, a leading-edge, high technology research and development organization, has an opening for a research staff position in software development.  The successful applicant will have minimum 1 to 3 years experience in software development and expertise in distributed Java design and development, along with the ability to learn quickly and think creatively. Applicants should have at least a bachelor's degree in computer science (MS preferred) or a related field and extensive experience with Java development.

Specific experience required:

·       Java development skills and experience are of primary importance but familiarity with other programming environments is a plus.

·       Demonstrated understanding of and ability to work at both the application and network level.

·       Java GUI development experience is a plus but not required.

·       Strong writing and communication skills.

Applicant MUST be a US citizen and MUST have had held a minimum secret level clearance in the last 24 months.

About Adventium Labs

Adventium Labs is dedicated to performing and publishing scientific research and to the creation, maturation, and application of scientific results.  We are incorporated as a non-profit organization to provide the freedom to work broadly with universities, technology partners and government entities. Headquartered in Minneapolis Minnesota, Adventium Labs brings together an experienced, multi-disciplinary team with a proven record of innovative research, the realization of that research as usable prototypes, and the transition of the prototypes to operational use.  Our clients include a number of high profile Government laboratories as well as Fortune 1000 companies.

Contact:   Bonnie Holub, bonnie.holub@adventiumlabs.org 612.720.4960

2010/07/19: Brian Isle is now a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Technology Leadership Institute. He will be teaching part time for UMN's Master of Science in Security Technologies (MSST) program.  The MSST is a fourteen-month multidisciplinary program with a systems approach that focuses on four areas; security methods and foundations, application expertise, systems science, and social and policy dimensions.

Adventium Labs, a leading-edge, high technology research and development organization, has an opening for a research staff position in cyber security.  Our particular interest is in someone who has expertise in virtualization, both the problems raised by virtualization and the opportunities for increased security presented by virtualization.  We currently have several projects involving Xen.

Position Description

Join an experienced research team engaged in ongoing projects to enhance the security of the Xen hypervisor and to develop innovative security capabilities that reside on the enhanced Xen hypervisor.

Key Technical Skills of Interest

* Experience with Xen hypervisor internals

* Experience with x86_64 architecture and Linux OS kernel programming

Qualifications

* BS or BA in computer science or a related field and three years experience, or MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field

* Experience with Xen internals, or experience with Linux kernel programming and strong interest in learning about Xen internals

* US citizenship

About Adventium Labs

Adventium Labs is dedicated to performing and publishing scientific research and to the creation, maturation, and application of scientific results.  We are incorporated as a non-profit organization to provide the freedom to work broadly with universities, technology partners and government entities. Headquartered in Minneapolis Minnesota, Adventium Labs brings together an experienced, multi-disciplinary team with a proven record of innovative research, the realization of that research as usable prototypes, and the transition of the prototypes to operational use.  Our clients include a number of high profile Government laboratories as well as Fortune 1000 companies.

Contact:   Bonnie Holub, bonnie.holub@adventiumlabs.org 612.720.4960

2010/06/24: The ISA Security Compliance Institute (ISCI) recently published the ISASecure™ Embedded Device Security Assessment (EDSA) certification specification on its website: www.ISASecure.org. The ISASecure EDSA certification is intended to be used as a requirement in industrial automation control systems procurement documents.

Beginning in 2008, a team from Adventium worked closely with ISA staff, ISCI members from industry and, third party reviewers to define this certification program. The Adventium team staffed key members of ISCI working groups authoring 12 of the 14 documents that comprise the ISASecure EDSA specification. These documents specify requirements for communication robustness testing for the top six control systems communication protocols, qualification of tools for communication robustness testing and, accreditation of organizations that will carry out ISASecure EDSA certification assessments. Adventium is continuing to work with ISCI to roll out and enhance the certification program.

Industry members of ISCI include ExxonMobil, Chevron, Rockwell Automation, Honeywell, Yokogawa, Siemens, Invensys, Exida and Mu Dynamics.

2010/05/10/: Brian Isle, Chief of Operations of Adventium Labs, served as a panelist during a discussion of communication standards that are critical to Smart Grid. The conference title was “The Business of Smart Grid: Benefits for Minnesota's Companies and Workforce” and was held at at the University of Minnesota on June 9, 2010.

2010/04/23: This article from the Med City News, 4/23/2010 discusses the Minnesota Science and Technology Authority that Adventium Labs has been supporting.

2010/04/22: Brian Isle, Chief of Operations of Adventium Labs, served as a panelist during the Smart Grid discussion at the MHTA Spring Conference.

2010/03/26: Brian Isle, Chief of Operations of Adventium Labs, presented on power grid security at the MMUA Winter Legistlative Conference.

2010/01/21: The Minnesota Deparment of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) recently published a report on a Science and Technology Initiative.  

The project brought science and technology experts from the public, academic, and private sectors to assess the state’s science and technology capabilities, and make recommendations to the Legislature.

Adventium CEO, Bonnie Holub was part of the  16-member committee that issued its report and recommendations.

It is online at: http://www.positivelyminnesota.com/About_Us/Legislative_Focus/Legislative-related_Reports/Minnesota_Science_Technology_Initiative.aspx