Brenton Kohler and Jacob Ewers

@kohlerbn & @J_ewers

www.cigital.com

Cigital
RVA locals with an AppSec obsession, Brenton Kohler and Jacob Ewers.

Brenton Kohler is a Managing Consultant with Cigital, a software security company. Brenton has a MS degree from James Madison University in Secure Software Systems. He has professional experience as a developer, researcher, and consultant. Brenton’s security expertise includes software security group management, penetration testing, security assessments, and secure code reviews in a diverse set of technologies. In his spare time Brenton enjoys being active and spending time with his family.

Jacob Ewers, a Senior Consultant with Cigital, has over five years of experience working with clients to implement and optimize their security initiatives. After performing and leading countless dynamic and static assessments, Jacob began to focus on tackling the harder problems of how organizations can make sure that they’re doing AppSec “right” as solving the AppSec puzzle never looks the same for each type of organization.

So you’ve purchased a SAST tool
Despite the marketing, deployment of static application security testing (SAST) tools is much more than a point and click adventure. If you have purchased a SAST tool, you’ve undoubtedly had the thoughts, “Are we more secure?” “Are we done?” “Was that successful?” We will discuss the path for a successful SAST tool deployment, attempt to cut through the FUD in the industry regarding SAST, and highlight the real potential pitfalls you may face along the way through case studies.

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Juan Carlos

@kongo_86

Enjoys long walks with a debugger. As well as profound conversations with IDA. All while eating tacos and drinking redbull.

Reversing for humans.
This talk is about reversing malware in the easiest way possible. While the tactics and procedure for doing so are not new the goal is to show you how you can get the simple things out and quickly identify the ‘things’ you need to asses its threat in your environment. This talk is for those that like to get dirty

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Evan Johnson

@ejcx

https://ejj.io

CloudFlare
Evan Johnson is an engineer at CloudFlare in San Francisco. He previously worked at LastPass and can distinguish diet coke from diet pepsi by taste.

Staying Above A Rising Security Waterline
Security is not a destination, it’s a journey. At CloudFlare, the journey is taking place daily at light speed. More products, more features, more services, more attack surface. I’ll talk about the technical work and process we created to maintain a high standard of security internally without burdening our developers.

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Andrew McNicol

@PrimalSec

@b3armunch

https://breakpoint-labs.com/blog/

BreakPoint Labs
Andrew McNicol is driven by his passion for helping organizations identify exploitable vulnerabilities before an adversary. He is currently the CTO at BreakPoint Labs specializing in offensive security services, mentor for SANS, and one of the founders and lead authors of Primal Security. Previously, he lead a penetration testing team and worked on an incident response team focusing on malware analysis and network forensics for DoD, Law Enforcement, and Commercial companies.

Andrew holds an M.S. in Information Assurance, and variety of InfoSec qualifications (OSCE, OSCP, OSWP, GICSP, GCFA, GCIA, GCIH, GPEN, GREM, GSEC, GWAPT, GWEB, CISSP, CEH, etc.)

Zack Meyers is a business oriented guy that then became a motivated InfoSec geek after getting started as a continuous monitoring vulnerability analyst. Shortly after, he took an interest in the offensive side of security work and currently works as an Offensive Security Engineer at BreakPoint Labs. Today he is always looking to learn about new techniques and tools that can help him identify his next big vulnerability finding. He is currently a member of Primal Security Blog | Podcast and holds several security certifications including OSCP, CISSP, GWAPT, GPEN, GCIH, etc

Beyond Automated Testing
Have you ever run a vulnerability scan and thought “Okay… now what?” This talk is all about how to go beyond automated testing to find vulnerabilities that scanners miss. The goal of the talk is to help inspire others to reach beyond Nessus and Burp Suite scans to help their organization identify vulnerabilities that expose high impact risk.

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Ben Smith

@Ben_Smith

blogs.rsa.com/hunting-sharks-teeth-iocs/

RSA
Ben Smith is Field Chief Technology Officer (Field CTO – US East) with RSA, The Security Division of EMC. He is a trusted advisor and consultant to RSA’s global financial services customers, as well as customers in other vertical markets. With over 25 years’ experience in the networking, information security and telecommunications industries, he is responsible for consulting on RSA’s strategic vision around architecture and technical roadmaps for the company’s security and risk management solutions. Prior to joining RSA, he held senior technical positions at UUNET, Intuit, CSC, and the US Government, along with a string of technology-oriented startups. He holds a number of professional technical certifications, including the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certificate, and has presented on RSA’s behalf, both domestically and internationally, at cybersecurity events sponsored by Gartner, FS-ISAC, ISSA, ICI, (ISC)2, ISACA, InfraGard, HTCIA and other organizations.

Measuring Security: How Do I Know What a Valid Metric Looks Like?
There is no universally accepted method to measure security. So how do we translate operational measurements into meaningful security metrics for the business? Doing so effectively is essential, because you can’t manage what you don’t measure. This session will touch on the following general questions: Why are security metrics important, from both a compliance and an operational perspective? What are some best practices to keep in mind when selecting security metrics? Does your audience(s) dictate which metrics to select? What behaviors are you trying to influence with these metrics? What are some unexpected sources of security metrics? How should you communicate those metrics internally within your organization for maximum impact? Are there any examples of poor metrics which should be avoided in most cases?

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Andrew Hay

@andrewsmhay

www.andrewhay.ca

DataGravity
Andrew Hay is the CISO at DataGravity where he advocates for the company’s total information security needs and is responsible for the development and delivery of the company’s comprehensive information security strategy. Prior to that, Andrew was the Director of Research at OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco) and was the Director of Applied Security Research and Chief Evangelist at CloudPassage, Inc.

Maneuvering Management Madness
Why do practitioners have such a hard time convincing their management team about the value of investing in security training, tools, and other initiatives? Is it because they’re too stubborn or busy to take the time to assess the concerns or is it more likely that you haven’t found the best way to communicate the threat to the business in a language that they understand?

Business leaders have implemented their own language, much of which was learned in business school, to better communicate with shareholders, board members, partners, and peers. Unfortunately, this language is often as foreign to most security practitioners as yours is to them. So what can practitioners do to better communicate with management?

This session will discuss several tactics to help convince your management team that your concerns are valid with examples on how to justify requests for headcount, procedures, policies, and human, tool, and training investment.

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