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RV4sec After Party Sponsored By Rapid7, Guidepoint and nVisium!

May 13, 2015 rvasadmin

We are pleased to announce that Rapid7, GuidePoint and nVisium have all come together to sponsor the RV4sec after party!

The after party will be held at Pearl on Thursday, June 4th at 6:30pm!

The event takes place shortly after day one of the conference ends–and it is a quick ride over so you can head right from VCU for some cocktails and food!

Event Details:

Thursday June 5th 6:30pm-8:30PM (maybe longer!)
2229 West Main Street, Richmond, VA 23220
804-353-2424

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Thanks again to our sponsors for making sure RVAsec attendees will be well taken care of this year!

Get Your Hotel Room By 5/13!

May 6, 2015 rvasadmin

Announcement

Just a reminder that if you need a hotel room for RVAsec, you should book it before our block at the Crowne Plaza ends on 5/13.

RVAsec has reserved a block of rooms at the Crowne Plaza for out of town guests. The rate is $113/night (which includes parking).

You can either book online or call the hotel.

When you call (855-472-7802) the hotel please tell mention the block “RVAsec” to get the special rate.

Crowne Plaza Richmond Downtown
555 East Canal Street, Richmond VA 23219
800-2CROWNE

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If for any reason you are unable to get the RVAsec rate or the block of rooms has been filled, please let us know so we can contact the hotel!

Once the block is full or expires we are not able to have it extended.

Make sure you check out information on getting to the conference.

Also you can check out things “ToDo” in RVA!

RV4sec Schedule Posted!

April 21, 2015 rvasadmin

Announcement Conference

schedule

The full schedule for the RV4sec 2015 conference is now published!

Registration & breakfast start at 8 AM on Thursday, June 4th and end at 6 PM (followed by the after party).

Registration and breakfast start again at 8 AM Friday, June 5th and end at 4 PM, followed immediately by the closing reception at VCU.

For the full details and times for specific talks, please see the schedule page.

RV4sec Speaker Lineup!

April 17, 2015 rvasadmin

Announcement Conference

speakers

There was a lot of competition in the CFP, but we’ve managed to whittle it down to another great lineup for RV4sec. So here are the speakers for the 2015 RV4sec conference!

Jennifer Steffens	G Mark Hardy
David J. Bianco	Caleb “chill” Crable
Adam Crosby	Chris Eng
Pete Herzog / Dave Lauer	Allen Householder
Barry Kouns	David Lodge
Kizz MyAnthia	Mark Painter
Elissa Shevinsky	Michelle Schaffer / Tim Wilson
Jason Scott	Jason Smith
Schuyler Towne	Robert Stratton
Boris Sverdlik	Bill Weinberg
Governor Terry McAuliffe

For detailed information about the speakers and their talks please see rvasec.com/speakers/

Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal to the CFP–the review team had to make some tough decisions and appreciate all the time and hard work that went into submitting.

CTF: New Hybrid Challenge Includes Live Bug Hunting!

April 15, 2015 rvasadmin

Announcement CTF

ctf

The RV4sec CTF dev team has been hard at work for the last few months cooking up some great new challenges for this year’s Capture the Flag (CTF) event. We’re sticking with the tiered approach in an effort to bring a healthy mix of educational challenges, along with more difficult “hack the Gibson” challenges.

However, this year’s CTF has a new twist! We are combining the CTF you know and love with live bug hunting with the help of Bugcrowd! Bugcrowd has run Bug Bashes at conferences before, but we are taking it to the next level at RV4sec: we’ll be incorporating aspects of the live Bugcrowd bug bounty system into the CTF scoring. This means you can get involved in finding real live bugs on systems and they will count for points in the CTF. Isn’t that excellent?!

The CTF has been a big success the last few years, and we are working hard to ensure that it continues to educate and provide a fun, safe environment to learn many aspects of IT, IT security, hacking and defending.

We are also working with Bugcrowd to allow CTF participants the ability to give back to the community. We are working on a process to allow local companies and not-for-profit organizations the ability to sign up to have their security tested as part of the CTF. The live bug hunting aspect will provide real organizations security testing so they can better understand and improve the security posture of their online presence. In the end, isn’t that what IT security should be about? We hope to provide more information on this very soon!

The CTF team is a mix of folks from many different facets of IT: we’ve got incident responders, hacker trackers, IT directors, pentesters, IT managers and everything in between. These folks have a passion for technology, enjoy exploratory dives into interesting problems, and want to share the joy, fun, frustration, learning, and general shenanigans that make the RV4sec CTF so much fun!

Our hope is that a healthy mix of folks will also come to participate in the free CTF hosted at RV4sec. We want everyone to come out and play, whether you’re new to tech, or you remember putting your first program on punch cards. Come out, plug in (well it’ll be wireless, but…) and get hacking, teaching, and learning.

Also, feel free to tweet us things you’d like to see in the CTF. It’s getting close but there may be time to get the ideas into a challenge. Use hashtag #rv4secctf and tweet to @pipefish_, @mpbailey1911, or even @RVAsec with ideas and we’ll see what we can do.

Come out to the RV4sec conference and enjoy the training, the talks, and plan to stop by the CTF for some hackery!

Thanks again to UNOS for sponsoring the CTF, as well as the other organizations donating prizes.

We’ll see you there, and keep your eyes peeled for more information soon!

Jennifer Steffens (@SecureSun) To Keynote RV4sec!

April 13, 2015 rvasadmin

Announcement Conference

keynote

We are pleased to announce that Jennifer Steffens will be keynoting RV4sec 2015!

As its CEO, Jennifer Steffens spearheads all aspects of IOActive’s global business operations and drives the company’s strategic vision. Jennifer brings a wealth of industry and business experience to the company, having been an early member of several successful startups.

Earlier in her career, Jennifer was a Director at Sourcefire, where she helped build and grow its run rate from $250K to over $35M in just four years. She helped commercialize the Snort open source intrusion detection and prevention technology and built several service offerings around research initiatives. Prior to joining IOActive, Jennifer came to Seattle to help startup GraniteEdge reinvent itself. While there, she led initiatives to restructure the company and developed a product strategy that ultimately secured two additional rounds of funding. With over ten years of industry experience, Jennifer has held senior management positions at Ubizen, NFR Security, and StillSecure.

Jennifer is a well-respected media source, appearing in InfoSecurity Magazine, SC Magazine, Good Morning America, BBC, Reuters, The Guardian, and CBS News. She has been invited to give keynote presentations at a variety of conferences such as HackInTheBox. Jennifer is a member of EWF, ISSA, and OWASP.

You can follow Jennifer on Twitter at @SecureSun.

Training: Vendor Risk Management and Trust Analysis

April 10, 2015 rvasadmin

Announcement Training

We are pleased to announce that Pete Herzog will be joining us this year to teach a class!

Vendor Risk Management and Trust Analysis

Get a grip on the risk caused by your vendors, cloud, software providers, partners, and other third parties you need to work with. Manage it in an orderly way that doesn’t overwhelm you or become the paperwork that sucks the life out of your job. Master it so you can make sure the people in charge of those relationships can also help you manage the security of those 3rd parties. This provides you with the means and the toolkit you need to do it in a practical, responsible, and secure method.

Training classes are held on Thursday, June 3rd, before the conference.

For more information on the class and the instructor, or to register, please see:

http://rvasec.com/training/

Training: Hands-On Lock Picking (Last Time At RVAsec!)

April 9, 2015 rvasadmin

Announcement Training

We are pleased to announce that, back by popular demand, we will have Hands-On Lock Picking with Schuyler Towne!

This is the last time that this training class is expected to be offered at RVAsec. If you have always wanted to take this class, now is the year to make it happen.

Get comfortable with basic lockpicks, open some security pinned locks (and possibly high security), and have an understanding of Pin Tumbler, Wafer and Disc Detainer locks. Learn the baseline knowledge to plan your own facility security, and get a number of excellent references to help continue your study.

Training classes are held on Thursday, June 3rd, before the conference.

For more information on the class and the instructor, or to register, please see:

http://rvasec.com/training/

Training: Integrating Computer Forensics with Incident Response

April 8, 2015 rvasadmin

Announcement Training

We are pleased to announce that Gregory Bell will be joining us this year to teach a class!

Integrating Computer Forensics with Incident Response

Over the last decade, the number of crimes that involve computers has grown, spurring an increase in companies and products that aim to assist law enforcement in using computer-based evidence to determine the who, what, where, when, and how for crimes. As a result, computer and network forensics has evolved to assure proper presentation of computer crime evidentiary data into court.

This class will show attendees the basic phases of the forensic process and incident response considerations, how to better integrate Computer (Digital) Forensics into their current Incident Response plan and Information System life cycle, and the tools and skill sets used to support computer forensics. For instance, when employees are terminated does Human Resource notify Information Security to preserve the terminated employee’s hard drive in the event litigation occurs at a later date?

Training classes are held on Thursday, June 3rd, before the conference.

For more information on the class and the instructor, or to register, please see:

http://rvasec.com/training/

RVAsec

Author: rvasadmin

RV4sec After Party Sponsored By Rapid7, Guidepoint and nVisium!

Get Your Hotel Room By 5/13!

RV4sec Schedule Posted!

RV4sec Speaker Lineup!

CTF: New Hybrid Challenge Includes Live Bug Hunting!

Jennifer Steffens (@SecureSun) To Keynote RV4sec!

Training: Vendor Risk Management and Trust Analysis

Training: Hands-On Lock Picking (Last Time At RVAsec!)

Training: Integrating Computer Forensics with Incident Response

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