Assura is a consulting and services firm focused on Information Technology Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC) with concentrations in cybersecurity, business continuity planning, IT audit and audit defense.
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Gold Sponsor Feature: Impact Makers
Impact Makers is driven to create meaningful change for our clients, our community partners, and ourselves. We will utilize our innovative business model to transform the business value of our work into social value for the community through partnerships with local non-profits that include financial contributions as well as pro-bono engagements. Impact Makers exists for the purpose of making our local communities better.
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Gold Sponsor Feature: Trend Micro
As a global leader in IT security, Trend Micro develops innovative security solutions that make the world safe for businesses and consumers to exchange digital information. With over 25 years of security expertise, we’re recognized as the market leader in server security, cloud security, and small business content security.
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Platinum Sponsor Feature: Focal Point
Our mission is to help leading companies build better and smarter cyber risk management programs. We understand that an effective risk management program is the best defense against increasingly complex regulations, stiffer penalties, and a sharp rise in cyber threats.
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RVAsec 2018 Registration Is Now Open!
Tickets for RVAsec 2018 are now on sale!
Early registration price is only $150 for two days of great speakers, food and beverages, t-shirt, swag, parking and more!
RVAsec’s base ticket price for 2018 is $175 and will be in place on 3/1–so don’t wait! And if that’s not enough incentive to purchase your tickets early, late registrations (after 4/21) will be $250!
Don’t forget all the things you get with registration, including 2 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.
So, to recap the conference prices:
- $150 discounted price until 2/29
- $175 regular price until 4/20
- $250 late registration until 5/26
- $350 super late registration until 6/1
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 we 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!
Register now!
RVAsec 2018 CFP is now open!
The call for papers for RVAsec 2018 is now open!
Click here to submit a talk to the CFP now!
Conference: June 7-8th, 2018
Location: Richmond, VA
CFP Submission Deadline: March 18th, 2017 at 11:59 PM Eastern
RVAsec is a Richmond, VA based security convention that brings top industry speakers to the midatlantic region. In its sixth year, RVAsec 2017 attracted 460 security professionals from across the country. For 2018, the conference is a two day and dual-track format, with a mixed focus on technical and management/business presentations.
All talks must be 50 minutes in length, and submissions will need to select either technical or business/management tracks.
Join us at RVAsec and enjoy the perks!
For more information and requirements, or to submit, please visit:
Win Even More Amazing Things This Year With Passport For Prizes!
Passport For Prizes is back again and better than ever!
Each attendee will receive a Passport at registration. If you want to play, then you must visit each sponsor table on the passport and obtain a signature, initials or stamp on your Passport–you must complete the entire Passport (yes, including contact information) in order to be eligible for the prize drawings, which will be held at the reception on Friday.
You must be present at the reception to win, so we can give you the prize!
What can you win?
- Two “Mystery Bags” provided by RVAsec
- $100 Amazon gift card provided by Focal Point
- Google Home provided by Assura
- $100 Visa card provided by SLAIT Consulting
- Amazon Echo provided by Trend Micro
- Spider Prize pack incl $50 voucher for class & merchandise provided by University of Richmond
- Drone provided by Synopsys
- Yubikey, Canakit, SD card provided by CarMax
- $100 Amazon gift card provided by Proofpoint
- $100 Amex card provided by Optiv
- $100 Amazon card provided by Risk Based Security
- Amazon Fire TV bundle and HDMI cable provided by Check Point
- Amazon Echo and Syma X5C Quadcopter provided by Aruba Networks
- Jambox speaker and Amazon fire stick provided by Palo Alto Networks
- Ipod Touch provided by Qualys
- Amazon Echo Dot and $50 Amazon card provided by Fortinet
- Amazon Echo provided by Sophos
- Beats wireless headphones provided by f5
- Bose speakers provided by FireEye
- Apple Watch provided by Rapid 7
- $150 Amex card provided by ZixCorp
Speaker Feature: Rick Lull and Shannon Yeaker
Rick Lull
rlull@verizon.net
Network bubba, health care IT survivor, now trying to play Horatio on the bridge via infosec for customers of my new company.
Shannon Yeaker
Shannon Yeaker, PMP, CISA, CAHIMS is a Lead Consultant with Impact Makers in the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Practice. She is a dynamic IT professional with extensive experience in Information Security, control design, risk management, project and process management at a Fortune 200 company in the financial services industry. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Associate in Healthcare and Information Management Systems (CAHIMS) and holds additional certifications in Business Process Management, Agile, Lean and Scrum. Shannon is a member of the Virginia Chapter of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).Currently serving as a Project Manager assisting a $3.5 billon healthcare system with multi-year and multi-million dollar information security transformation program. She manages the delivery of secure network segmentation to over 30,000 endpoints in 7 states. Shannon was previously with Capital One, for more than 20 years. She has a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from James Madison University.
Adventures in (Dynamic) Network Segmentation or And that’s how I got this scar
Network segmentation is a great way to build a foundation for a thorough approach to defense in depth as part of your security program. The benefits can be great, but the path is not without some risk of its own. This talk with review some of the challenges and successful strategies to create a solid and sustainable practice on getting your arms around what is out there and on your network. The presenters, fresh from a large scale project to do this at a health system, will cover tips, tricks, pitfalls and the like to let you approach this very useful tool with your eyes wide open.
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RVAsec Sold Out – Waiting List, Refunds, Ticket Transfers & Hotel Update!
RVAsec is officially sold out!
We have already had emails coming in from people hoping to get tickets to RVAsec. While we are pleased that we are sold out, unfortunately we are at capacity at this point.
If you are still interested in attending please add your name to the wait list as soon as possible.
If tickets for some reason become available then you will be notified and provided an opportunity to purchase. You should have a day from the time you are emailed to purchase, and if you do not, then the next person of the list will be provided the opportunity, and so on it goes.
Please note that you will NOT be able to get a bag/shirt or a hackable badge if any tickets do open up.
In fact, this is a good time to remind that for anyone that registered LATE (it is noted on your ticket) are not guaranteed a bag, shirt or hackable badge.
If for some reason you are not able to attend RVAsec last minute, please note that we can’t provide refunds this late but we might be able help someone else attend (email us!). It is however possible to transfer your ticket.
Ticket Transfers
Log in to your Eventbrite account and go to My Tickets (you may need to create an account using the email address you registered).
You can then view your Current Orders (select RVAsec), and “Edit details” for the ticket. Changing the “Contact Information” will update the name of the person registered to check in at the conference. You can also change the questions asked at registration, which will help us plan for parking, catering and other items.
Refunds
No refunds for the conference will be issued after May 10th.
Hotel
The conference hotel is almost as capacity. They have told us that they can’t help anyone with room past May 22nd. If you still need a room you need to contact them ASAP or you will be on your own!
Silver Sponsor Feature: Palo Alto Networks
As the next-generation security company, we are leading a new era in cybersecurity by safely enabling all applications and preventing advanced threats from achieving their objectives for tens of thousands of organizations around the world. We are one of the fastest growing security companies in the market because of our deep expertise, commitment to innovation, and game-changing security platform focused on bringing an end to the era of breaches by uniquely integrating our Next-Generation Firewall, Advanced Endpoint Protection, and Threat Intelligence Cloud.
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