Category: Conference

Help Us Brew Something Special at RVAsec 13!

April 24, 2024
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Exciting news for all RVAsec attendees! This year, we’re partnering again with Garden Grove Brewing to create a custom beer, and we want your help to choose what we brew. Whether you’re a beer aficionado or just enjoy a casual pint, your input will help us decide on the perfect brew to complement this year’s conference.

Here are your choices:

  1. Rice Lager: A crisp and refreshing lager with a smooth finish. Perfect for winding down after a day of engaging talks.
  2. New England IPA: Hazy, fruity, and boldly hoppy. A modern twist on a craft beer favorite.
  3. Berliner Weisse – Lemon Flavored Wheat Sour: A tart and invigorating wheat beer with a zesty lemon edge. Ideal for the adventurous palate.

How to Vote: To cast your vote, simply visit our voting page!

Voting is open until the end of the week, and the winning brew will be announced shortly thereafter.

Make your voice heard and help us choose the flavor of RVAsec 13!

We can’t wait to see which brew you pick, and then we get to talk names!

RVAsec 13 Speaker Announcements

April 10, 2024
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We are pleased to announce the first batch of speakers for RVAsec 13!  Secure your ticket as prices increase on May 1.

While there are still more speakers to announce and the exact schedule is still coming, head over to https://rvasec13.sched.com/directory/speakers to read more about each speaker and talk abstracts!

  • Kymberlee Price – Keynote
  • Caleb Sima – Keynote
  • Darryl MacLeod – Strategic Alliances: How GRC Teams Can Empower Offensive Security Efforts
  • Ariyan Suroosh – Its Coming From Inside the House: A Guide to Physical Facility Penetration Testing
  • Chris Tillett – The Human Experience of Security Operations
  • Jennifer Shannon – API-ocalypse
  • Kevin Johnson – Orion’s Quest: Navigating the Cyber Wilderness – Tales of Modern Penetration Testing
  • Aqeel Yaseen – Mindfulness, Meditation, and Cybersecurity
  • Corey Brennan – Embracing my inner cyber wizard to defeat Impostor Syndrome
  • Corey Overstreet – That Shouldn’t Have Worked – Payload Development
  • Ross Merritt – Improv Comedy for Social Engineering
  • David J. Bianco – My Way is Not Very Sportsman-Like: Shaping Adversary Behavior to Strengthen Defenses
  • Nick Copi – Some Assembly Required: Weaponizing Chrome CVE-2023-2033 for RCE in Electron
  • Oren Koren – Verified for Business Continuity: How to Remediate Risk Safely Across the Enterprise
  • Luke McOmie (Pyr0) – Apples to Apples
  • Sam Panicker – Quickstart to building your own Private AI Chat
  • Jimi Sebree / Evan Grant – Consumer Routers Still Suck
  • Micah Parks – Reverse Engineering for Dummies: The “what if?” user
  • Tucker Mahan – Defending Against the Deep: Is your workforce ready for Generative AI Adversaries?
  • Ben Haynes – Prioritization Myths Busted with Better Vulnerability Data
  • Ali Ahmad – Hacking Exchange from the Outside In

Stay tuned for additional speaker announcements coming soon! We will have a new layout this year with multiple tracks.

And if you haven’t purchased your ticket yet, the time to do so is now as prices go up on May 1st!

Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rvasec-13-security-conference-tickets-776407274057

RVAsec 13 Registration Open!

January 15, 2024
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Tickets for RVAsec 2024 are now on sale!

Registration for the RVAsec 13 security conference, located in Richmond, Virginia, is only $275 (to start) for two full days of talks, meals, snacks, drinks, reception, after party, prizes, a capture the flag contest, t-shirt & swag!

Once we sell out there will be no more tickets available and we do not have tickets for purchase at the door onsite.

Conference ticket prices and deadlines:**

  • $275 special price for the first 100 tickets!
  • $375 regular price until 5/1
  • $475 late registration until 5/24
  • $575 super late registration until 6/2 or until tickets sell out

We also again have the RVAsec Marriott Hotel Package available until 5/10! The conference + Marriott hotel package is $650 and includes:

  • Two night’s stay at the Richmond Marriott Downtown (6/4 and 6/5), including taxes+fees (card needed at check-in for incidentals)
  • RVAsec conference admission
  • Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge (the only way to guarantee one of the limited electronic badges)
  • T-Shirt
  • Bag
  • Meals & snacks
  • Events

** If you are unable to attend due to the price, please contact us to discuss as we have stipends available for students, and we have a volunteer opportunities that provide a great way to get in for free!

Once again there will be no tickets sold at the door–and RVAsec has sold out every year–don’t wait!  We are unable to provide refunds due to processing fees.  You can, however, easily transfer your ticket to another person.

Register now!

RVAsec 13 – June 4-5, 2024

January 12, 2024
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We are pleased to announce the dates for RVAsec 2024, and that we are moving to the Downtown Richmond Marriott for the next three years.  While we are grateful to our previous venue for supporting us over the past several years, this move gives us even more space and better parking options!

The conference will be held June 4-5, 2024 at the Richmond Marriott Hotel.

Please stay on the look out for future announcements about the CFP and ticket sales.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

-Chris and Jake

RVAsec 12 Schedule – Mobile App & Online

June 13, 2023
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Looking for the RVAsec 12 schedule? Download the RVAsec Mobile App or view it online!

You can easily download the Sched app for iOS or Android.  After downloading, you can log in to Sched (should be sync’d with your ticket purchase). You can then easily create and see your schedule.  If you have any issues you can also reset your password and search for RVAsec.

If you don’t want to install the mobile application, the RVAsec schedule is available also for mobile!

Features

Personal Agendas
Plan out your own schedule in advance to get the most out of RVAsec.

Personalized Profile
Add a photo, bio, and connect your social media profiles.

Event Mobile App
Stay in-the-loop with iOS and Android apps.

Speaker Directory
Easily review speakers and their background.

Play Store

RVAsec 12 CPE Proof of Attendance

June 12, 2023
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2023 CPE PDFIf you need proof of attendance for your CISSP or other certification CPEs, please use this PDF.

Instructions:

Proof of attendance:

Please Create Your Personal Schedule Now!

RVAsec 2023
May 2, 2023
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Please make sure you log in to the Sched website or download the RVAsec Mobile App! You can easily download the Sched app for iOS or Android.

After downloading, please log into Sched (should be sync’d with your ticket purchase email address). You can then easily create and see your schedule. If you have any issues you can also reset your password and search for RVAsec. If you don’t want to install the mobile application, the RVAsec schedule is available also for mobile!

We need your help to assign sessions to appropriately sized rooms! This year we are back to three tracks at the conference for the first time at the Omni! We have three rooms but they are very different sizes, so we need to know what sessions you plan to attend to help determine room assignments!

You can also see speakers for the RVAsec 2023 and the times for specific talks on the schedule page. We are hoping to minimize movement of talks for each day and time, but we will adjust accordingly based on session interest. The sooner you can setup your personal schedule the better.

Thank you!

RVAsec Schedule Features

Personal Agendas
Plan out your own schedule in advance to get the most out of RVAsec.

Personalized Profile
Add a photo, bio, and connect your social media profiles.

Event Mobile App
Stay in-the-loop with iOS and Android apps.

Speaker Directory
Easily review speakers and their background.

Play Store

Ticket Prices for RVAsec 12 Go Up On 5/12!

May 1, 2023
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RVAsec 2023Due to a slight technical issue, tickets for RVAsec were unavailable for purchase prior to the price increase. To provide additional time to correct that mistake, we have decided to extend Regular Ticket prices until May 12, 2023 at 11:59 PM. We are at 75% capacity right now, and once we sell out there will be no more tickets available!

After 5/12, we will then have late registration open for $450 until 5/31

If you are unable to attend due to the price, please contact us to discuss as we do have stipends available for students and also have volunteer opportunities that provide a great way to get in for free!

Once again there will be no tickets sold at the door, and don’t forget that RVAsec has sold out every year–so don’t wait any longer!

 

RVAsec 12 Speaker Announcements

April 19, 2023
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We are pleased to announce the first batch of speakers for RVAsec 12!  Secure your ticket as prices increase on April 30.

While there are still more speakers to announce and the exact schedule is still coming, head over to https://rvasec2023.sched.com/directory/speakers to read more about each speaker and talk abstracts!

  • Andy Ellis – Keynote
  • Paul Asadoorian – Keynote
  • Adrian Amos – I <3 my password
  • Allen Jenkins – “Use your words” – to build an Information Security Program and fight Cyber Crime!
  • Amelia Szczuchniak – Why You Can’t Call the Police
  • Andrea Matwyshyn – Cybernation: The FUD, Facts, and Future of Software Liability and Security
  • Andrew Hendela – Software Bills of Behaviors: Why SBOMs aren’t enough
  • Andrew Skatoff – Maturing your Threat Hunting Operations
  • Brendan O’Leary – Shakespeare, Bacon, and the NSA
  • Colin Estep – Insiders packing their bags with your data
  • Dan Han – Beyond the pandemic: How the pandemic shaped organizations and their security architecture
  • David girvin – Hacking your Job? Trying to cheat at life with ChatGPT
  • Denis Mandich – Quantum Cybersecurity
  • Drew Schmitt – Ransomware Rebranding … So Hot Right Now!
  • Dwayne McDaniel – Who Goes There? Actively Detecting Intruders With Cyber Deception Tools
  • Fletcher Davis – Context Matters: Tailoring Tradecraft to the Operational Environment
  • Ian MacRae – The state of NIST/CMMC compliance today
  • Jason Wonn – Corporate Dungeon Master: How to Lead Cyber Games at Work
  • Josh Cigna – Everything you never knew you wanted to know about Passkeys
  • Kate Collins – This is the Way: A New Leadership Creed for Info-Sec professionals
  • Kenneth Broderick – Hunting for Evidence of Data Exfiltration: Dark Web, Digital Forensics, and Log Analysis
  • Mark Arnold – TOP 5 CISO FINDINGS OF 2022
  • Qasim Ijaz – Feature or a Vulnerability? Tale of an Active Directory Pentest
  • Rick Lull – Network 201: A Tour Through Network Security
  • Scott Small – Adversary TTP Evolution & the Value of TTP Intelligence
  • Luke McOmie – “A programmatic approach to enterprise security” OR “How to not waste your security budget on sh!7 that doesn’t matter!”
  • Kevin Massey – Heap Exploitation from First Principles

Stay tuned for some additional speaker announcements coming soon!

We have a new layout this year with multiple tracks. Given some space requirements the exact schedule and room assignment will be more in flux than prior years at RVAsec.  More details to come very soon!

And if you haven’t got your ticket yet, the time to do so is now!  Prices go up in 11 days!

You can get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rvasec-2023-security-conference-tickets-411449104347

Paul Asadoorian To Keynote RVAsec 2023!

February 16, 2023
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This may seem like Déjà vu but a silly pandemic won’t stop us!

We are pleased to announce once again that Paul Asadoorian will be keynoting RVAsec!  Paul is the Founder & CTO of Security Weekly as well as a Principal Security Evangelist at Eclypsium.

Paul spent time “in the trenches” implementing security programs for a lottery company and then a large university. Paul is offensive, having spent several years as a penetration tester. He is the founder of the Security Weekly podcast network, offering freely available shows on the topics of information security and hacking. As Product Evangelist for Tenable Network Security, Paul built a library of materials on the topic of vulnerability management. When not hacking together embedded systems (or just plain hacking them) or coding silly projects in Python, Paul can be found researching his next set of headphones.