Category: Announcement

Hacker Warehouse Will Be At RV4sec!

We are pleased to announce that Hacker Warehouse will be at RV4sec!  This will be the first year attendees will be able to see HackerWarehouse_Banner-1500x750amazing security products that are available and be able to purchase them at the conference.

You can check out the Hacker Warehouse website and get a feel for some of their products. If you want something specific available at RV4sec be sure to let them know!

HackerWarehouse.com strives to be your one-stop shop for all your computer security needs from defense to offense. T understand the importance of tools and gear which is why we strive to carry only the highest quality gear from the best brands in the industry.

We’re dedicated to serving you—our customer—with the highest level of service. Don’t hesitate to contact them should you need anything.

 


CTF: New Hybrid Challenge Includes Live Bug Hunting!

ctfThe 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?!

BugcrowdThe 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!

UNOS


Jennifer Steffens (@SecureSun) To Keynote RV4sec!

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 IOActiveCEO_JenniferSteffens_2013_02business 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

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!)

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

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/


Terry McAuliffe, Governor of Virginia To Provide Remarks At RV4sec!

We are pleased to announce that Virginia Governor McAuliffe will be providing remarks at RV4sec!

Terry McAuliffe is the 72nd Governor of Virginia. Since being sworn-into office, Governor McAuliffe has aggressively focused on building a new Virginia Governor Elect Terry McAuliffeeconomy.

Whether traveling to Bedford or Beijing, Governor McAuliffe has made it clear that his number one priority is economic development and he is working hard to create and maintain jobs throughout the Commonwealth.

The Governor is also working to restore trust in government. On his first day in office, he signed an executive order imposing a $100 gift ban on himself, his family, and members of his administration and their families. He established through executive order the Commission on Integrity and Public Confidence in State Government, which will focus on ethics oversight and enforcement, limits on gifts and loans, rules on conflicts of interest, disclosure requirements and post-public service restrictions.

McAuliffe has proven that his administration will be smart stewards of Virginia’s transportation dollars. Demonstrating his commitment to bipartisanship, he worked with Republican leadership on House Bill 2 to prioritize transportation projects based on what is best for Virginia’s commuters not politicians.  He followed through on his commitment to lowering the downtown/midtown tunnel tolls to alleviate the burden on Hampton Roads residents, commuters, and businesses. He eliminated the EZ Pass maintenance fee for all Virginia commuters, and suspended work on Route 460, because he does not believe that Virginia taxpayers should be spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a road when we don’t have permits to ensure its completion. Governor McAuliffe also worked with the Governor of Maryland and the Mayor of the District of Columbia to invest $75 million in our regional metro system – taking cars off the roads and relieving congestion.

Governor McAuliffe understands that in order to compete for the jobs of tomorrow, it is essential that we make key investments today. The Governor signed legislation increasing the amount of Virginia qualified research and development expenses that can now be claimed as a tax credit. This legislation is important because it encourages private companies to invest in the jobs of the future.

In order to ensure that Virginia continues to have the best workers in the world, Governor McAuliffe understands that Virginia must continue to have a world-class education system. This year, he was proud to sign standards of learning reform legislation, to make Virginia’s education system work better for students, teachers, and our schools.

Virginia is home to approximately 800,000 veterans, and the Governor is committed to fighting for those who have so bravely served our country. He expanded the Virginia Values Veterans initiative, which encourages employers to recruit, hire, train, and retrain our veterans. He also signed legislation to provide unemployment compensation to military spouses who leave their job to accompany their spouse to a new military assignment in another state, as well as legislation that will expand access to higher education for eligible veterans’ family members.

In July 2014, Governor McAuliffe signed Executive Order 23 Establishing the New Virginia Economy Workforce Initiative.  With a goal of an additional 50,000 credentials, aligning the workforce supply with demand and giving experience credit to our veterans, Governor McAuliffe wants to redesign our current workforce system to work with the needs of our communities and businesses.

The Governor’s administration has made unprecedented progress on the restoration of rights to rehabilitated felons who have served their time. People who have paid their debt to society should be able to work, pay taxes and vote.

Governor McAuliffe ran for office to fight for uninsured Virginians and that is why he took bold executive action to expand health care. His plan, A Healthy Virginia, will help improve the lives of more than 200,000 Virginians by expanding access to care, improving care for veterans and for those with severe mental illness, and enhancing value and innovation across our health system.

Governor McAuliffe previously served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005, was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign, and was chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.

He and his wife Dorothy were married in 1988 and have five children.

The Governor attended Catholic University and Georgetown Law School.

 


Training: Hunting The White Whale – Offensive Application Pentesting

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

Hunting The White Whale – Offensive Application Pentesting

OVERVIEW

This course will introduce the attendees to the concepts of Information Security, the security issues that plague all applications today, learn how to create an attack strategy, and execute against the problem. This course will encompass both common and easily exploitable vulnerabilities and the more advanced or custom exploits and techniques that attackers use in the real world. We will discuss what motivates an attacker, what the types of mindsets are, and what tools they will most likely use.

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/


Time is running out!

WHAT???? 

Only 4 days left to claim your Early Bird Registration special pricing for RV4sec 2015!

For only $125 you get 2 full days of talks, meals, parking, snacks, drinks, reception, after party, prizes, a capture the flag contest, t-shirt and swag.

The price goes up to $150 after Friday, so don’t wait!

REGISTER NOW!

http://rvasec.com/register/

 


Early Bird Registration Still Available!

Early Bird tickets are available until March 14th – grab them now for only $125!

Registration includes 2 full days of talks, meals, parking, snacks, drinks, reception, after party, prizes, a capture the flag contest, t-shirt & swag!

Register now!