[socal-piggies] New to the list: An introduction

[jathan.]

Thanks for the welcome!

I would love to! However, I must admit I am not prepared whatsoever,
but I think I can easily fill 5 minutes.

We have a framework called Simian that is similar to something Google
just open-sourced recently called Capirca[1]. Simian does way more
than just firewall/access-list parsing, so that would probably be a
good starting point.

  [1]: http://code.google.com/p/capirca/

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Grig Gheorghiu
<grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Jathan, and welcome. Python in security work sounds very
> interesting. Would you be interested in giving a 5 minute presentation
> at the meeting this Thursday on some of the stuff you use Python for?
>
> Grig
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:49 AM, jathan. <jathan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello SoCal Piggies!
>>
>> My name is Jathan McCollum. I moved to LA almost 3 years ago from the
>> greater DC area to escape from the cold.
>>
>> The people I work with are all still on the east coast, and I mostly
>> work from home, so my exposure to other highly technical people during
>> the week is limited.  Being relatively new to the area, I only have a
>> small group of techie friends, and sadly none of them are as technical
>> as me. I know it probably sounds weird, but after a while of not
>> having anyone to REALLY talk tech with, it starts getting pretty
>> boring.
>>
>> So, I just got hair-brained idea the other day to search for a local
>> Python users' group and found the SoCal Piggies!
>>
>> I have been working for AOL since 2000 as a security engineer and
>> heavily rely on Python for much of my tedious, repetitive work. I am
>> 100% self-taught (no college), so I have been working hard at becoming
>> more professional and regimented in my coding style, especially when
>> it comes to documentation. I use Python almost exclusively for all of
>> my engineering projects at work, except for those few straggling
>> pieces of Perl code I wrote years ago that I'm still afraid to go back
>> and touch.
>>
>> I have a lot of experience working in a large-scale environment with a
>> focus on consistency-checking, anomaly detection, and automation. I'm
>> looking forward to what this year brings and I hope that I will be
>> able to share and learn with you folks!
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> --
>> jathan.
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