Local Government Webmasters Meeting Agenda

Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Chinook Building (King County), Seattle
Room 123 (new room assignment)

• 10:00 Welcome and introductions
• 10:05 Flash-based Video - Streaming and On-demand; Bruce Blood, Citywide Web Manager, city of Seattle, and Laurie Bullock, Web Manager, Seattle Channel
  A brief history of the Seattle Channel's conversion from RealMedia to Flash followed by a description of the city's video encoding and publishing process. The Seattle Channel is currently using Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server, Adobe Flash Player and Ajax to host and stream H.264/MPEG4 and FLV files.
• 11:15 Open discussion
  Providing services online to cut costs; other topics as determined by participants
• 12:15 Lunch
• 1:15 Preservation of Electronic Public Records (Chapter 434-662 WAC); Russell Wood, Washington State Records Manager
  Q&A on archiving of electronic public records, and in particular, WAC 434-662.140 and .150 (Web site management and E-mail management). Russell will also address issues relating to the archiving of Twitter posts.
• 2:15 SQL Injection: Precautionary Measures; Michael Hamilton, Chief Information Security Officer, city of Seattle
  SQL injection has become part of the background noise of the Internet. During one month in 2008, the City of Seattle recorded an attack attempt every 11 seconds. This presentation will cover:
  • Definition: what SQL injection is, the goal of the attack, and why it is so pervasive
  • Taxonomy: the various methods in which SQL injection is attempted
  • Detection: how attacks show up in web server and database logs
  • Recovery: cleaning up successful injection attacks
  • Prevention: server, database and web application code techniques to prevent occurrence
• 3:30 Adjourn

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