Mark Weatherford
(Your) Inevitable Path to the Cloud (Slides)
Evan Johnson
Staying Above A Rising Security Waterline (Slides)
Senator Mark Warner
Welcome To RVAsec!
Karen R. Jackson, Virginia Secretary of Technology
Keynote
Trey Ford
Keynote (Slides)
Wendy Nather
Keynote (Slides)
Wondering where things are for RVAsec in the VCU University Student Commons? Look no further!
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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
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.
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!
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.
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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