Michelle Schaffer/Tim Wilson: Hasty Headlines in InfoSec: Don’t Be Fooled by Everything You Read!
Bill Weinberg: OSS Hygiene – Mitigating Security Risks from Development, Integration, Distribution and Deployment of Open Source Software
RV4sec Videos: Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe RV4sec Special Remarks
RV4sec Videos: Pete Herzog/Dave Lauer & Jason Smith
Pete Herzog/Dave: Hacking the Market. How financial market players manipulate prices and infrastructure.
Jason Smith: Applied Detection and Analysis Using Flow Data
RV4sec Videos: Schuyler Towne & Mark Painter
Schuyler Towne: Selling Security in a Post Lock Society
Mark Painter: A year in the life of HP security research
RV4sec Videos: G. Mark Hardy (Keynote) & David Bianco
G. Mark Hardy: Keynote
David J. Bianco: Visual Hunting with Linked Data Graphs
RV4sec Videos: Jennifer Steffens (Keynote) & Boris Sverdlik
Jennifer Steffens: RV4sec Keynote
Boris Sverdlik: You’re HIPAA certified and Bob just killed someone from the parking lot
RV4sec 2015 Recap
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
After Party Update: Sponsored By Rapid7, Guidepoint and Nvisium!
We have a few quick updates about the after party brought to you by Rapid7, Guidepoint and Nvisium have all come together to sponsor the RVAsec after party!
The after party will be held at The Vintage Room above Pearl Raw Bar on Thursday, June 4th at 6:30pm!
The event takes place shortly after day one of the conference ends–and it is a quick walk over so you can head right from VCU for some cocktails and food!
If you plan to attend, please register to ensure we have enough staff & space reserved!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/rv4sec-after-party
The Vintage Room is above Pearl Raw Bar. Please enter The Vintage Room to the left of the of the main entrance to Pearl.
Thursday June 4th 6:30pm-8:30PM (maybe longer!)
2229 West Main Street Richmond, VA 23220
(804) 353-2424
Thanks again to our sponsors for making sure RVAsec attendees will be well taken care of this year!
Silver Sponsor Feature: Sun Management
Sun Management
https://www.sunmanagement.net/
Sun Management is a dedicated group of sales and engineering professionals focused on introducing leading-edge, disruptive technologies to corporate and government organizations, providing solutions to their evolving IT security needs. Sun Management has served the Federal and Commercial DC Metro, MD, PA, VA, WVA markets for over 11 years.
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