As you may have seen in our announcement post or on our Calendar, the GovSec Expo & Conference is coming up in two weeks! The event includes three tracks that touch on infosec but one is entirely dedicated to Cybersecurity and Information Assurance. Additionally on the Expo floor, they will have two special areas...
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Last night I attended the NoVA Hackers Association monthly dinner meetup. Instead of having one or two longer talks, this meeting had four shortened 15 minute presentations … often called fireside talks Firetalks. The talks were great and there was plenty of time to catch up with some of the local infosec pros. Approximately 15 people attended...
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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...
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It’s that time of the week again: The time where we take a look at what local security bloggers have been up to. If you can’t get enough of the local security scene, check out our NovaInfosec Twits list for even more great security blogs and people to follow on Twitter. Also be sure to...
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With all the big news being RSA, it seemed fitting to make this week’s “syndicated” post actually two “syndicated” posts from a local blogger at RSA. Over at The Falcon’s View, Ben Tomhave discusses RSA’s “Innovation Sandbox” as well as  summarizes of day 1. As part of our effort to let the Metro DC area...
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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...
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It’s that time of the week again: The time where we take a look at what local security bloggers have been up to. We had an overflow of posts this week after last weeks low turnout. We mainly focus on security and business practices this week but the “Reaction to Cyber Shockwave” post stood out...
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So I’m finally getting around to getting this post out… I just wanted to close this whole series by announcing the winners and again thanking everyone for helping make it a success. As you can see below, I’ve only gotten links to a few presentations. If you still need to post your presentation, please let...
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It’s hard to believe it’s been a year already but the 1105 Government Group is readying their GovSec Expo & Conference event for next month. The Expo will feature some of the newest tools and technologies related to incident prevention and hazard/disaster response. The best thing of all is that the Expo is FREE...
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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. 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...
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