Here is some information regarding this week’s Thursday OWASP – VA Local Chapter infosec meetup event. Pizza will be provided for a small fee. If you plan on attending, RSVP to Stan Wisseman (email available in their post – linked below) so they can get your badge processing started.
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Tags: event, infosec, meetup, nova, owasp, owasp-va, secure development, web application
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As many of you probably already know SANS will be running the SANSFIRE infosec conference event later this month. Here are the logistics for this year’ conference:
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Here is some information regarding this week’s Thursday CharmSec infosec meetup event. There isn’t an O’s game so the bar shouldn’t be that crowded.
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Here is some information regarding this week’s Wednesday CapSecDC infosec meetup event. Sorry for the late posting…
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The NoVA Sec infosec meetup event back in April featured Aaron Walters discussing memory forensics. I’m not much of a forensics person at this point and so much of the information was over my head. Richard Bejtlich however has recently posted his notes from this session for those interested. See our original post for more information.
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Here is some information regarding this week’s Thursday ISSA – NoVA Chapter infosec meetup event. The presenter is Marcus Sachs, who I had once as a SANS instructor. It’ll be interesting to hear what he has to say on this topic.
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Tags: commission, csis, cyber, event, infosec, issa, issa-nova, meetup, nova, presidency, security
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Rybolov from The Guerilla CISO, a local infosec NoVA-based blog, has put together a great blog post about NIST’s latest effort to modernize SP 800-30: Risk Management Guide for Information Systems. In his post he stresses how NIST should not change this document into a “catalog of controls gap analysis” process to favor compliance...
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Just a quick update that the The Last HOPE infosec conference event is in 5 weeks. Recently, they’ve announced Steven Levy as the keynote speaker along with other talks by Adam Savage (from Mythbusters), Kevin Mitnick (no intro needed), Jello Biafra, and Steven Rambam. Beyond that, additional speakers have been announced and there are...
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I noticed that OWASP AppSec has recently announced this year’s OWASP NYC AppSec infosec conference event. These AppSec conferences have really been expanding in recent years. The last one I went to was the OWASP/NIST event they had about two years ago up in Gaithersburg. Since then they’ve seemed to have expanded into offering...
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Tags: appsec, conference, event, infosec, new york, nova, nyc, owasp, pace
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Over at the Carnal0wnage Blog, CG made a nice post about the updated draft version of DoD 8570.1M that is probably relevant to many of us in NoVA. This is the directive that requires many of us to have some kind of IA certification if we want to do work for the government. CG focused on...
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Tags: 8570.1M, carnal0wnage, certification, dod, infosec, nova
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