by Susan Butler
InfoSec Southwest has completed its sixth year, and it keeps getting better and better. Continuing its tradition of engaging topics and accessible community, ISSW saw professionals and newbies alike getting involved. Whether attendees were there for technical topics like “Cleaning up Magical … Read More
Austin Research Director and Senior Security Engineer at NCC Group. Friend of unicorns. Fantastic at stepping in last minute.
Larry Moore is the Senior Information Risk Management consultant with NTT Data. He has CISSP, CISA, and CCISOI certifications and is the Vice President and IT Sector Chief for the FBI InfraGard chapter in Austin, TX. He is also president of the Austin chapter of the ISSA & a Computer Science Department Advisory Board Member for Parker University.
Joe Gray joined the U.S. Navy directly out of High School and served for 7 years as a Submarine Navigation Electronics Technician. Joe is an Enterprise Security Consultant at Sword and Shield Enterprise Security in Knoxville, TN. Joe also maintains his own blog and podcast called Advanced Persistent Security. He is also in the SANS Instructor Development pipeline, teaching SANS Security 504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling. In his spare time, Joe enjoys reading news relevant to information security, attending information security conferences, contributing blogs to various outlets, bass fishing, and flying his drone.
@C_3pJoe
@advpersistsec
Lucas has 18 years of IT Security experience, including talking at over 6 different conferences. He also holds the title of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2006.
Jen Ellis is the vice president of community and public affairs at Rapid7, a security data and analytics company. In this role, Jen’s primary focus is on building productive collaboration between those in the security community and those operating outside it. She works extensively with security researchers, technology providers and operators, and various Government entities to help them understand and address cybersecurity challenges. She believes effective collaboration is our only path forward to reducing cybercrime and protecting consumers and businesses. She has testified before Congress and spoken at a number of security industry events including HOPE, SXSW, RSA, Derbycon, Shmoocon, SOURCE, UNITED, and various BSides.
Leah Figueroa is a 13 year veteran of the data analytics field and works as a data analyst in higher education. She holds a Master’s in Education, an ABD in research psychology, and has taught kindergarten. A data aficionado, Leah focuses on research on improving student outcomes at the higher education level, including focusing on both minority student issues as well as issues pertaining to students who come from a background of poverty. While not at work, Leah is interested in increasing data security in the higher education sphere as well as improving blue teams by helping bring data analytics into the team. Leah also enjoys being a fiber artist (knitter) and loves cats, InfoSec, picking locks, cooking, and reading.
Tibbs recently graduated from the University of West of Scotland with a degree in computer security. She has relocated to Portland, OR, where she evangelizes for privacy and security while contracting as an Security Evaluation Engineer at Intel. She is passionate about encouraging small children to take the plunge into STEM and about laughing at cats on the internet.
Bill is a long time activist, programmer, and cryptography enthusiast. He works on EFF’s Tech Projects team as a security engineer and technologist, currently maintaining HTTPS Everywhere and Panopticlick. He has also contributed to projects such as Let’s Encrypt and SecureDrop. Bill can be found talking to crowds of people on soap boxes and stages in far off places, or doing digital security trainings for organizations. He loves hacker spaces and getting together with other techies to tinker, code, share, and build the technological commons.
@legind
Erich Kron, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, is a veteran information security professional with over 20 years’ experience in the medical, aerospace manufacturing and defense fields. He is the former security manager for the 2nd Regional Cyber Center-Western Hemisphere and holds CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, MCITP and ITIL v3 certifications, among others. Erich has worked with information security professionals around the world to provide the tools, training and educational opportunities to succeed in InfoSec
@KB4Erich
@ErichKron
WanderingGlitch is a vulnerability analyst, reverse engineer, and exploit developer for the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) program. His primary role involves performing root cause analysis on ZDI submissions to determine exploitability, followed by developing exploits for accepted cases. Prior to being part of ZDI, he was a member of the Digital Vaccine team where he wrote exploits for ZDI submissions, and helped develop the ReputationDV service from TippingPoint.
WanderingGlitch’s focus started off in the networking world but then shifted to development until transitioning to security. He has a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
@WanderingGlitch
Joe runs the Incident Response Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, joining LANL in 2014 after 5 years as an Information Warfare Officer in the US Navy. When not responding to macro-enabling users and Nigerian princes, Joe spends his time leading a team of threat hunters to uncover the latest and greatest in bad-guy tactics and techniques.
Dennis Maldonado is a Security Consultant at LARES Consulting. His current work includes penetration testing, infrastructure assessments, red teaming, and security research. Dennis’ focus is encompassing all forms information security into an assessment in order to better simulate a real world attack against systems and infrastructure. As a security researcher and evangelist, Dennis spends his time sharing what he knows about Information Security with anyone willing to learn. Dennis co-founded Houston Locksport in Houston, Texas where he shares his love for lock-picking and physical security as well as Houston Area Hackers Anonymous (HAHA), a meet-up for hackers and InfoSec professionals in the Houston area.
@DennisMald
Project Mayhem is a combined scavenger hunt, bar crawl and skills challenge taking place Saturday night in the heart of downtown Austin’s nightlife. This is not to be missed.
Saturday April 8, 2017
9PM Check in
10PM- 1AM Game on
Home base is:
Buffalo Billiards Rec Room
201 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78701
The Culper Group trains and equips individual, corporate, and government clients in the arts and sciences of deception detection, truth elicitation, and influence. Our team has a diverse background, bridging the gap between the national security establishment, the business and financial sector, and academia.The world of human behavior, and particularly deception, is unsurprisingly murky. The Culper Group focuses on scientifically defensible methods with practical real world applications – from neuroscience labs to the battlefield, and into the boardroom.
Joe Gray joined the U.S. Navy directly out of High School and served for 7 years as a Submarine Navigation Electronics Technician. Joe is an Enterprise Security Consultant at Sword and Shield Enterprise Security in Knoxville, TN. Joe also maintains his own blog and podcast called Advanced Persistent Security. He is also in the SANS Instructor Development pipeline, teaching SANS Security 504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling. In his spare time, Joe enjoys reading news relevant to information security, attending information security conferences, contributing blogs to various outlets, bass fishing, and flying his drone.
Daniel Crowley is a Senior Security Engineer and Regional Research Director for NCC Group in Austin, tasked with finding and exploiting flaws in everything from Web applications and cryptosystems to ATMs, smart homes, and industrial control systems. He denies all allegations of unicorn smuggling and questions your character for even suggesting it. He has been working in information security since 2004. Daniel is TIME’s 2006 Person of the Year. He has developed and released various free security tools such as MCIR, a powerful Web application exploitation training and research platform, and FeatherDuster, an automated modular cryptanalysis tool. He does his own charcuterie and brews his own beer. He is a frequent speaker at conferences including Black Hat, DEFCON, Shmoocon, Chaos Communications Camp, and SOURCE. Daniel can open a door lock with his computer but still can’t launch ICBMs by whistling into a phone. He has been interviewed by various print and television media including Forbes, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal. He holds the noble title of Baron in the micronation of Sealand. His work has been included in books and college courses.
Brandon Perry has been active in the web application security field for almost 10 years and has been a heavy contributor of web application exploits to Metasploit.
Katie Ledoux is a member of Rapid7’s internal information security team in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She tweets dank memes @kledoux.