This may seem like Déjà vu but a silly pandemic won’t stop us!

We are pleased to announce once again that Paul Asadoorian will be keynoting RVAsec!  Paul is the Founder & CTO of Security Weekly as well as a Principal Security Evangelist at Eclypsium.

Paul spent time “in the trenches” implementing security programs for a lottery company and then a large university. Paul is offensive, having spent several years as a penetration tester. He is the founder of the Security Weekly podcast network, offering freely available shows on the topics of information security and hacking. As Product Evangelist for Tenable Network Security, Paul built a library of materials on the topic of vulnerability management. When not hacking together embedded systems (or just plain hacking them) or coding silly projects in Python, Paul can be found researching his next set of headphones.

We are pleased to announce that Chris Tignor will be keynoting RVAsec 2020!

Chris Tignor is Global Chief Information Security Officer for PRA Group, Inc in Glen Allen, Virginia. He has extensive experience in cybersecurity and information technology risk management with international financial services and consultancy organizations. His recent activities include strategies and program development projects to address cloud migration, data security, regulatory remediation (e.g. GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, HIPAA, OCC Heightened
Expectations), cyber fusion centers, threat intelligence, data governance and cyber analytics.

Prior to joining PRA Group, Chris was Principal and Chief Information Security officer for ImpactMakers in Richmond, Virginia. His past experiences include Senior Vice President of Information Security for the Federal Reserve Bank System, Chief Information Security Officer for Capital One Financial Corporation, Chief Operating Officer for W.C. Duke Associates and senior consultant for Accenture.

Chris is actively engaged in multiple volunteer and pro-bono activities. Chris is passionate about helping non-profit and higher education institutions. He currently volunteers with IT4Causes.org to provide pro-bono security consulting and security awareness training to multiple non-profits across Virginia. In addition, Chris has served on several executive boards for universities, cybersecurity firms and financial institutions.

Chris and his family live in Ashland, Virginia where he enjoys train watching and gardening.

Joshua Corman is a Founder of I am The Cavalry (dot org) and CSO for PTC. Corman previously served as Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative for the Atlantic Council, CTO for Sonatype, Director of Security Intelligence for Akamai, and in senior research & strategy roles for The 451 Group and IBM Internet Security Systems. He co-founded RuggedSoftware and IamTheCavalry to encourage new security approaches in response to the world’s increasing dependence on digital infrastructure. Josh’s unique approach to security in the context of human factors, adversary motivations and social impact has helped position him as one of the most trusted names in security. He also serves as an adjunct faculty for Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College and on the Congressional Task Force for Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity.

We are pleased to announce that Katie Moussouris, CEO of, Luta Security will be keynoting RVAsec 2018!

Luta Security is a company offering unparalleled expertise to create robust vulnerability coordination programs. Luta Security specializes in governments and multi-party supply chain vulnerability coordination.

Ms. Moussouris recently testified as an expert on bug bounties & the labor market for security research for the US Senate, and has also been called upon for European Parliament hearings on dual-use technology. She was later invited by the US State Department to help renegotiate the Wassenaar Arrangement, which she successfully helped change the export control language to include technical exemptions for vulnerability disclosure and incident response.

She is a coauthor of an economic research paper on the labor market for bugs, published as a book chapter by MIT Press in 2017, and presented on the first system dynamics model of the vulnerability economy & exploit market in 2015, as part of her academic work as a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan School.

She has over 20 years of pioneering leadership in information security, as a former penetration tester at @stake , to creating Microsoft Vulnerability Research, the first MS Bug bounties, and advising the US Department of Defense for years resulting in the launch of the Hack-the-Pentagon program. She is also an author and co-editor of standards ISO 29147 Vulnerability disclosure and ISO 30111 Vulnerability handling processes.