Admission, Refunds, and Other Boring Stuff
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Admission, Refunds, and Other Boring Stuff
Conference Admission
Conference admittance is restricted to registered Attendees displaying an official badge. All personnel representing an Exhibitor or its authorized agents must be properly identified with an official badge.
Cancellations, Refunds, and Registration Transfers
Show Management reserves the right to cancel, change location of, or amend Event programs, speakers, or other activities as necessary.
Show Management has the absolute right to cancel any Attendee registration and this Agreement with any Exhibitor or Attendee if such fails at any time to comply with any of the terms, provisions or conditions of their respective application, registration, or this Agreement.
Badge Replacement Policy, Attendee Refunds and Attendee Transfers
Do not lose your badge. Badges are non-replaceable if they become lost. Badges are necessary for any Event function and to gain access to the Facility. Exhibitors, Attendees, and any Event guests are required to display their badge at all times. If you are asked to show your Event badge, please do so.
Attendees may request a full refund of their registration fee up to ten (10) business days before the Event. Show Management shall make its best efforts to refund such Attendees within 30 days.
Minors & Children
InfoSec Southwest welcomes those excited to learn about information security and hacking of all ages, but is targeted toward adults. We ask that minors be accompanied by parents or legal guardians at all times.
Attendees under 21 will not be allowed to participate in our Reception or Project Mayhem.
Americans with Disabilities Act Accommodation
Show Management not only welcomes, but encourages, the participation of those with special needs and will work to make participation in the Event as accessible as possible. Attendees and Exhibitors must communicate any special needs within 3 months of the Event.
Each Exhibitor shall have the sole responsibility for ensuring that its exhibit is in full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and any other laws and regulations on disabilities or accessibility. Exhibitors agree to comply with all laws and regulations that apply to their exhibit space. The Exhibitor will ensure the accessibility of its exhibit space and agrees to hold harmless and indemnify Show Management, the convention facility and the official contractors against any claims, damages or loss, including attorney’s fees and costs, arising out of or related to any alleged ADA violation. Necessary compliance efforts may differ with the nature of the exhibit so exhibitors should consult their own attorney regarding these requirements.
Animals
Service and assistance animals are permitted in all public areas and at all times. No other animals will be permitted in convention space.
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Anti-Harassment Policy
InfoSec Southwest values diversity and is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks. Conference participants violating these rules may be expelled from the conference without a refund at the discretion of the conference organizers. Our full anti-harassment policy can be found at: /diversity
Flyers & Advertising Materials
Attendee shall not, without the written consent of Show Management, distribute or permit to be distributed, any advertising matter, literature, souvenir items or promotional materials in or about the exhibit areas or Facility except from its own allotted exhibit space and official promotional areas. Attendee shall not post nor exhibit any signs, advertisements, show bills, lithograph posters or cards of any description on any part of the premises of the Facility, except within rented exhibit space and upon such space as is made available for such.
Attendees may not advertise in or on the sidewalks, ramps, entries, doors, corridors, passageways, vestibules, hallways, lobbies, stairways, elevators, escalators, aisles, or driveways of the Facility without written permission from Show management.
Abuse of Facility
Please do not abuse our hotels or convention facilities. This includes putting signs on walls, windows, doors, floors, ceilings, or other places that don’t belong to you.
Photography and Video Recording
Conference sessions may not be photographed or video/audio recorded without written consent of Show Management.
Speakers should expect to be filmed, photographed, and/or recorded by Show Management for event promotional purposes.
Weapons
Weapons are not allowed about any part of the Event nor elsewhere within the facility.
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Non-Liability and Indemnity
The Show Management will not be responsible for any damage or loss to Attendees for any causes except the willful misconduct of the Show Management. Attendees agree to take all reasonable care to prevent loss including security protection and fire protection.
All information shared during the Event are the opinions of the Event’s speakers, Attendees, Exhibitors, and other Event guests. These Opinions are not necessarily the opinions of the Show Management nor its staff. Exhibitors and Attendees agree to independently and thoroughly evaluate any information received while participating in the Event before taking any action based upon such information.
Onsite Questions
Please go to the registration desk with any onsite questions or needs.
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.
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.
Katie Ledoux is a member of Rapid7’s internal information security team in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She tweets dank memes @kledoux.
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.
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 InfoS
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.
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.