We are pleased to announce that Wendy Nather will be keynoting RVA5ec 2016!

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, and you can follow her on Twitter as @RCISCwendy.

Tickets for RV45ec are now on sale!

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

RV4sec’s base ticket price for 2015 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!

The call for papers for RVA5ec 2016 is now open!

Click here to submit a talk to the CFP now!

Conference: June 2-3rd, 2016

Location: Richmond, VA

CFP Submission Deadline: March 13th, 2016 at 11:59 PM Eastern

RVAsec is a Richmond, VA based security convention that brings top industry speakers to the midatlantic region. In its third year, RVAsec 2015 attracted 365 security professionals from across the country. For 2016, the conference is a two day and dual-track format, with a mixed focus on technical and management/business presentations.

We’re pleased to formally announce the dates for RVAsec!

RVAsec 2016 will be held on Thursday and Friday, June 2nd and 3rd 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!

We have finally recovered from RV4sec and wanted to bring you a quick recap!  We sold 386 tickets this year, and was on par for attendance from the previous year.  It was great to see so many new faces this year and we hoped everyone had a great time.

What were thrilled to bring you:

• Awesome Keynotes by G. Mark Hardy and Jennifer Steffens!
• Remarks from Terry McAuliffe, Governor of Virginia! How could anyone forget the EPIC introduction for the Governor! =)
• Great speakers with great topics!
• Breakfast, lunch, coffee & snack breaks sponsored by Capital One and  Symantec
• Amazing badges from Hack.RVA!

• RVAsec 6 pack cooler bag stuffed with swag
• Capture The Flag with live bug hunting sponsored by UNOS!
• RVAsec t-shirt with “Inside the Mind of the Hacker” logo designed by 14-year-old @AylaMadison
• Post-con reception with adult beverages (and more food) with great Passport prizes
• After party sponsored by Rapid7, GuidePoint and nVisium!

What to expect in the coming weeks:

• Surveys should be sent out shortly, please take the time to provide us your valuable feedback
• Slides will be posted
• Videos will be posted to the RVAsec YouTube channel.
• We hope to be able to post up a CTF recap as well

Thanks again to all our our speakers, sponsors and volunteers!

Next year, RVAs5c will be June 2-3, 2016.

See you next year.

Jake and Chris