Category: Conference

RVAsec 2017 Registration Is Now Open!

December 5, 2016
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Tickets for RVAsec 2017 are now on sale!

Early registration price is only $125 for great speakers, food and beverages, t-shirt, swag, parking and more!

RVAsec’s base ticket price for 2017 is $150 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 $225!

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:

  • $125 discounted price until 2/29
  • $150 regular price until 4/20
  • $225 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 and volunteer opportunities are a great way to get in for free! Once again there will be no tickets sold at the door, and don’t forget that RV4sec has sold out every year–so don’t wait!

Register now!

RVAsec 2017 CFP is now open!

November 30, 2016
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The call for papers for RVAsec 2017 is now open!

Click here to submit a talk to the CFP now!

Conference: June 8-9th, 2017

Location: Richmond, VA

CFP Submission Deadline: March 12th, 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 fifth year, RVAsec 2016 attracted 400 security professionals from across the country. For 2017, 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:

http://rvasec.com/2017-cfp/

RVAsec 2017 – June 8-9

November 20, 2016
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We’re pleased to formally announce/remind you about the dates for RVAsec!

RVAsec 2017 will be held on Thursday and Friday, June 8th and 9th at the Commonwealth Ballroom at VCU’s University Commons.

If you are interested in speaking, keep an eye out for a CFP announcement coming shortly!

Sponsorships are still available, please contact us if interested!

RVA5ec Layout

June 1, 2016
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Wondering where things are for RVAsec in the VCU University Student Commons? Look no further!

  • Registration is outside the Commonwealth Ballroom
  • Talks are in Commonwealth Ballroom & Richmond Salons
  • Vendors & food are in the Virginia Rooms
  • Capture the Flag (CTF) is in the James River Terrace
  • Badges from HackRVA are in the James River Terrace

 

Click the map below for a larger version.

 

VCU Commons Floor Map

Talks:
Virginia Commonwealth University Campus
University Student Commons, 2nd floor
907 Floyd Avenue, Richmond, VA 23284

Parking:
Main Street Parking Deck
801 West Main Street, Richmond, VA 23284

Click here for more info

RVA5ec Sold Out – Waiting List and Ticket Transfers

June 1, 2016
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We have had a lot of emails coming in from people hoping to get tickets to RVA5ec.  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 email us and we will add you to the waitlist.   Please note that you will most likely not be able to get a bag/shirt and will not get a hackable badge.

Also, if for some reason you are not able to attend RVA5ec last minute, please note that there are quite a few people that are already on the wait list.  You can email us to let us know (while we can’t provide refunds this late) as we might be able help someone else attend.  Also, it is 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.

 

After Conference Reception Sponsor!

May 20, 2016
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We are pleased to announce that vArmour are sponsoring our After Conference Reception on Friday, 3rd June. The Reception will be held in the Commonwealth Ballroom directly after the last talk on Friday afternoon. Thank you to vArmour, and we look forward to seeing you all there!

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https://www.varmour.com

@varmournetworks

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Keynote Feature: Wendy Nather

May 20, 2016
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@RCISCwendyWendy Nather

Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC)
Wendy Nather is Research Director at the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC), where she is responsible for advancing the state of resources and knowledge to help organizations defend their infrastructure from attackers. She was previously Research Director of the Information Security Practice at independent analyst firm 451 Research, covering the security industry in areas such as application security, threat intelligence, security services, and other emerging technologies.

Wendy has served as a CISO in both the private and public sectors. She led IT security for the EMEA region of the investment banking division of Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS), as well as for the Texas Education Agency. She speaks regularly in locations around the world on topics ranging from threat intelligence to identity and access management, risk analysis, incident response, data security, and societal and privacy issues. Wendy is co-author of The Cloud Security Rules, and was listed as one of SC Magazine’s Women in IT Security “Power Players” in 2014. She is an advisory board member for the RSA Conference, and serves on the board of directors for Securing Change, an organization that helps provide free security services to nonprofit groups. She is based in Austin, Texas.

We Need to Talk…

How do you move threat intelligence sharing from Gossip to Grownup? It takes more than technology: it takes social engineering on a massive scale. Wendy Nather will talk about the process of standing up a new ISAC, the barriers to intel exchange, the Wacky Races of platform and feed providers, and the role government has to play (spoiler: it’s not what you think). The future of threat intelligence is going to be fewer steak dinners and pew-pew maps; it’s going to look more like the Neighborhood Watch on social media. Grab a cup of coffee and let’s meet at the firewall.

Register for RVAsec NOW!

Hospitality Sponsor: Fortinet

May 19, 2016
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We are very pleased to welcome Fortinet as our Hospitality Sponsor for Friday, 3rd June. Their sponsorship pays for all food and drink on the day, so make sure you stop by their booth and say hi!

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www.fortinet.com      @fortinet

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Hospitality Sponsor – Varonis

May 19, 2016
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We are very pleased to welcome Varonis as our Hospitality Sponsor for Thursday 2nd June. Their sponsorship pays for all food and drink on the day, so make sure you stop by their booth and say hi!

Varonis

https://www.varonis.com   @varonis

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Speaker Feature: Andrea Matwyshyn

May 18, 2016
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www.andreamm.com

@amatwyshyn

Dr. Andrea M. Matwyshyn is a legal academic studying technology innovation and its policy implications, particularly corporate information security regulation and consumer privacy. She is currently a (tenured full) professor of law/professor of computer science (by courtesy) at Northeastern University, a faculty affiliate of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and a visiting research collaborator at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, where she was the Microsoft Visiting Professor during 2014-15. In 2014, Professor Matwyshyn served as the Senior Policy Advisor and Academic in Residence at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. She has testified in Congress on issues of technology innovation and information security regulation and is a US-UK Fulbright Commission Cyber Security Scholar award recipient in 2016-2017.

CYBER!

This talk challenges the underlying assumptions of the “cyber” or “cybersecurity” legal and policy conversation. It argues that the two dominant paradigms – information sharing and deterrence – reflect last century’s policy approaches that channel our security energies in misguided directions: in their current form, they will neither thwart technology-mediated attacks on our national security nor meaningfully bolster consumer protection. Drawing insights from the work of seminal philosopher of science Michael Polanyi, this talk first identifies four analytical flaws that plague the legal and policy analysis of information security. It then offers a new policy paradigm – reciprocal security inducement. Reciprocal security inducement reframes the legal and policy security conversation around two key elements: information vigilance infrastructure and defense primacy. The talk concludes with a list of concrete legal and policy suggestions reflecting the reciprocal security inducement paradigm.* *This talk contains bacon.

Come see me at RVAsec 2016! Register now.