NovaInfosecPortal.com » Events http://www.novainfosecportal.com News, events, & resources for infosec professionals in NoVA, DC, & MD Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:00:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Three BSidesLasVegas Hidden Gems http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/27/three-bsideslasvegas-hidden-gems/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/27/three-bsideslasvegas-hidden-gems/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:00:27 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/?p=3983 Security B SidesSince we signed up as a “blogger” for this whole awesome BSidesLasVegas thing, I thought we should start by putting out some quick recommendations on how you may want to spend your time at this event. First off I generally have a rule of planning to attend no more than three talks per day … hence the name of this post. Ideally, I would like to attend all of them but then you end up missing a lot of the “hallway” discussions and other fun activities and contests. Additionally, I tend to avoid talks that are going to already get a lot of press. I would rather spend time trying to discovering some hidden gems. You can always read about the others later in the popular press. These are just some little rules I like to live by … that just how I roll. ;) Anyway on to some recommended talks…

On Wednesday I will be getting in mid-morning so I’m just going to head over in the afternoon around 1:00 or so. Unfortunately, this means I can’t take part in some of the interesting morning talks. Regardless, starting at 1:00 I will probably hit the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition talk by Chris Lytle and Leigh Hollowell. The presentation looks to focus on lessons learned from these competitions and how they can be used as a learning tool. I am thinking of starting an internal competition similar to this within my company. That combined with its focus as a learning tool really makes this talk a worthwhile talk for me. Next up will probably be “The Dark side of Twitter, Measuring and Analyzing Malicious Activity on Twitter” from Paul Judge and David Maynor. If you don’t know it by now, I’m sort of addicted to this whole Twitter thing [there I said it] therefore I really want to learn more about its potential downsides. Their talk will summarize malicious activity on Twitter based on two years of data and 20 million user accounts. Finally since I’ll be giving the first of three career/community-related talks, I plan to stay for Joseph Sokoly’s “Infosec Young and Restless” and then see what the Infosec Mentoring Panel has to offer. Joseph will look at improving our community image and the panel will touch on getting the most out of mentor/mentee relationships. [I'm counting this as one talk ... even I have a hard time following my own rules.]

Thursday will be a bit more difficult as I’ll have a full day of talks to choose from as well as the start of some Defcon activities. I will probably start the morning out with “Social Network Special Ops: Extending Data Visualization Tools for Faster Pwnage” from Chris Summer. Visualization has always been a fascination of mine (especially for showing pretty pictures to management). That combined with information that can be extracted from social networking data and its associated connections looks to be quite an interesting way of gaining invaluable insight about an organization or person. I’m usually in favor of best practices however I do understand it has its pros and cons. For that reason I plan to check out “The Road to Hell is Paved with Best Practices” from Frank Breedijk and Ian Southam to get some of the cons. It seems it will be a fairly balanced presentation though that will answer the question “Will best practices make use more secure?” Finally, I will probably head over to see Zach Lanier’s “It Melts In Your Hand: An Overview of Security (Failures) In Mobile Applications.” Mobile is big and will only get bigger in the future. The presentation will touch on security not only from a device perspective but how these devices are connected.

Well those are some quick recommendations for BSidesLasVegas. Be sure to check out the BSidesLasVegas Talks page for more details on these presentations as well as other talks that you may be interested in. Are there any “hidden gems” I missed? Let us know in the comments below…

And if anyone wants to meetup, just mention @grecs on Twitter or find the guy with a gray Breezewood shirt on Wednesday. And like I mentioned above I’ll be giving at talk on this day as well at 4:00 titled “Infosec Communities for Career Success: Understanding, Participating, and Cooking One Up” so you can also catch me after that. There are tons of people I’ve met through Twitter and mailing lists and would enjoy finally meeting a few of you in person. See ya!

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/27/three-bsideslasvegas-hidden-gems/feed/ 5 Where You Want to Be This Week for 2010-07-19 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/19/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-07-19/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/19/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-07-19/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:46:32 +0000 nathiet http://www.novainfosecportal.com/?p=3954 Where do you want to be this week? Now you’ll always know with our “Where You Want to Be This Week” feature, which will tell you about infosec meetups happening in your local area as of Sunday night. If you would like your event listed in our Calendar and in this post, contact us or mention it to @grecs on Twitter.

Anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Tuesday (7/20)

Wednesday (7/21)

Thursday (7/22)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/19/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-07-19/feed/ 4 Where You Want to Be This Week for 2010-07-12 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/13/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-07-12/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/13/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-07-12/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:14:27 +0000 nathiet http://www.novainfosecportal.com/?p=3928 Where do you want to be this week? Now you’ll always know with our “Where You Want to Be This Week” feature, which will tell you about infosec meetups happening in your local area as of Sunday night. If you would like your event listed in our Calendar and in this post, contact us or mention it to @grecs on Twitter.

We hope you had a superb 4th of July; we have a quiet week in terms of meetups this week. It seems like the place to be is at the SANS Digital Forensics Awards Night where there will be prize giveaways. Anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Thursday (7/15)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/13/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-07-12/feed/ 4 Upcoming Conferences for July, August, September http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/06/upcoming-conferences-for-july-august-september/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/06/upcoming-conferences-for-july-august-september/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:58:01 +0000 nathiet http://www.novainfosecportal.com/?p=3892 With our monthly “Upcoming Conferences” feature, we’ll tell you about infosec conferences that are happening at least 3 months out in your local area. It’s been a while since we put this post out, it’s here to make sure that a conference never sneaks up on you again, this feature makes sure that you’ll have plenty of time to plan and register. If you would like your event listed in our Calendar and in this post, contact us or mention it to @grecs on Twitter.

Anyway, as of Sunday night here are the conferences we’ve confirmed.

July

  • SANS What Works in Forensics & Incident Response Summit (Fairmont Washington DC; 07-08 to 07-09)
  • Cybersecurity Symposium (Hilton Washington; 07-08)
  • PCybersecurity & Innovation in the Information Economy Symposium (Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center; 07-27)

August

  • EVT/WOTE Workshop (Wardman Park Marriott Hotel; 08-09 to 08-10)
  • CSET Workshop (Wardman Park Marriott Hotel; 08-09)
  • WOOT Workshop (Wardman Park Marriott Hotel; 08-09)
  • CollSec Workshop (Wardman Park Marriott Hotel; 08-10)
  • HealthSec Workshop ((Wardman Park Marriott Hotel; 08-10)
  • HotSec Workshop (Wardman Park Marriott Hotel; 08-10)
  • Metricon Conference (Wardman Park Marriott Hotel; 08-10)
  • USENIX Security Symposium (Wardman Park Marriott Hotel; 08-11 to 08-13)
  • SANS WhatWorks in Virtualization & Cloud Computing Summit (Fairmont Washington DC; 08-19 to 08-20)

September

  • NoVA Hackers Association Metasploit Workshop (ICF International; 09-18)
  • Software Assurance Forum (NIST; 09-21 to 10-01)
  • IT Security Automation Conference (Baltimore Convention Center; 09-21 to 09-30)

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the conferences listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

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We hope you had a superb 4th of July; we have a quiet week in terms of meetups this week. It seems like the place to be is at the SANS Digital Forensics Awards Night where there will be prize giveaways. Anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Thursday (7/8)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/06/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-07-05/feed/ 5 Where You Want to Be This Week for 2010-06-28 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/28/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-06-28/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/28/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-06-28/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:05:00 +0000 nathiet http://www.novainfosecportal.com/?p=3845 Where do you want to be this week? Now you’ll always know with our “Where You Want to Be This Week” feature, which will tell you about infosec meetups happening in your local area as of Sunday night. If you would like your event listed in our Calendar and in this post, contact us or mention it to @grecs on Twitter.

Anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Tuesday (6/29)

Wednesday (6/30)

Friday (7/02)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

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Anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Wednesday (6/23)

Thursday (6/24)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/21/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-06-21/feed/ 6 Where You Want to Be This Week for 2010-06-14 http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/15/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-06-14/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/15/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-06-14/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:56:33 +0000 nathiet http://www.novainfosecportal.com/?p=3824 Where do you want to be this week? Now you’ll always know with our “Where You Want to Be This Week” feature, which will tell you about infosec meetups happening in your local area as of Sunday night. If you would like your event listed in our Calendar and in this post, contact us or mention it to @grecs on Twitter.

Anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Tuesday (6/15)

Thursday (6/17)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

]]> http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/15/where-you-want-to-be-this-week-for-2010-06-14/feed/ 3 AppSecDC Infosec Conference Event http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/15/appsecdc-infosec-conference-event/ http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/06/15/appsecdc-infosec-conference-event/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:00:53 +0000 grecs http://www.novainfosecportal.com/?p=3811 OWASP has announced the CFP for this year’s AppSecDC infosec conference event to be held at the Washington DC Convention Center from November 8th through the 11th. The AppSecDC conference plans to be a premier gathering of information security leaders. Executives from Fortune 500 firms along with technical thought leaders such as security architects and lead developers will be traveling to hear the cutting-edge ideas presented by information security’s top talent. OWASP events attract a worldwide audience interested in “what’s next”. The conference is expected to draw 600-700 technologists from Government, Financial Services, Media, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Technology, and many other verticals.

This year they are seeking presentations on the following topics:

  • OWASP Tools and Projects
  • Cloud Application Security
  • Government Approaches to Application Security
  • Application Security Case Studies
  • Application Security and Business Risks
  • Metrics for Application Security
  • Web Services Security
  • Source Code Review
  • Web Application Security Testing
  • Secure Coding Practices
  • Privacy Concerns
  • Vulnerabilities/Exploits in the Web App World
  • Defense & Countermeasures in the Web App World
  • Other web application security topics

For more information on AppSecDC, see its description in our Infosec Conferences section as well as OWASP’s AppSecDC conference and CFP pages. And don’t forget to check out our Calendar for a list of similar infosec events in and around the NoVA area.

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Anyway, here are your meetups for this week.

Wednesday (6/9)

Thursday (6/10)

Remember that HacDC and Baltimore Node are two local hacker spaces that also hold several standard activities each week … so check them out for more fun stuff to do.

And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter at @novainfosec and @grecs to be alerted about any last-minute events or to receive updates on the meetups listed above. Finally, check out our Calendar for a complete list of infosec events in and around NoVA, DC, and MD.

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