Richmond, VA

May 30th - June 1st, 2013

RVAsec 2013 Slides Posted!

Slides from RVAsec 2013!

Alex Hutton – Keynote Chris Wysopal – Keynote
Donald Allison - Observations on the (Mostly)Inadvertent Effect of Data Management on International Cybercrime Investigations Rockie Brockway - Business Adaptation or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet’s Unclean Conflicts
Colby Clark - The Digital Battlefield Gus Fritschie & Andrew Du - How to defend against FISMA
Adam Ely - BYOD: Risks, Maturity, and Solutions Dan Han - SIEM implementation: What to expect
Dan Holden - DDoS & Modern Threat Motives Itzik Kotler - Hack Like It’s 2013
Barry Kouns - Risk Assessment — The Heart of Information Security
Brian Lockrey - Social Media Digital Forensics
Sean Mason - A Day in the Life of an Incident Responder at a Fortune 5 Daniel Ramsbrock - Web Application Vulnerabilities and Solutions
Mike Shema - JavaScript Security & HTML5 Jericho - Our Straw House: Vulnerabilities
Ben Tomhave - Interesting Times: Will Business Survive? Schuyler Towne - Vulnerability Research Circa 1851
Paul Watson - Cross-Platform Network Access Control

 

Surveys, Slides, Videos and more!

RVAsec 2013 is over and we are very pleased with how everything turned out!  It was an aggressive move to grow the way we did this year, but we heard your feedback loud and clear, and you demanded more!

The first year RVAsec was a 1 day single track conference that attracted approximately 170 attendees.  This year, we grew to 2 days, 2 tracks and had over 265 attendees!

Some thanks are in order for:

  • Our brilliant keynote speakers Alex Hutton and Chris Wysopal
  • The amazing speakers that shared their time and knowledge!
  • All of the trainers for providing affordable classes to the RVA community
  • Hack.RVA for once again making awesome badges
  • Hope and VCU for all of their support and the facility
  • All of the volunteers for donating their time to ensure everything was in order
  • The sponsors for making it possible to put on the conference
  • Rapid7 for the after party
  • Create A Print & Sign for the shirts
  • The CTF team for putting on an amazing event
  • And of course to everyone that attended RVAsec 2013!

 

We are in the process of cleaning up some loose ends to wrap up RVAsec 2013.  Here are a few other quick updates:

  • Attendee survey will be out soon–we need your feedback to make RVAsec 2014 even better, so please take a few minutes to complete it
  • Training feedback survey has been sent to all attendees
  • Slides will be posted soon
  • We will be starting post processing on video in the coming days and will have them ready as soon as possible.

 

If you have any questions please contact us!

No Ticket, No Entry–But Watch the Videos!

Just a reminder that RVAsec 2013 is completely sold out!

This means that you will not be allowed entrance to the conference if you are not registered–absolutely no tickets will be available at the door!

We’re sorry if you missed out on a ticket, however, we are recording the speakers and will have talks posted after the conference. Please follow @rvasec on Twitter (or the good ol’ RSS feed) for video announcements and registration dates for next year!

Reminder: RVAsec After Party by Rapid7 — Please Register!

Just a reminder that Rapid7 is hosting the RVAsec after party on Friday, May 31 at the Tobacco Company! The event takes place right after the conference–so head from VCU down to Shockoe Slip for some cocktails and appetizers!

Please sign up for this event using this link:
http://information.rapid7.com/rvasec-conference-party.html

Event Details:
Friday May 31st 6:30pm-9:30PM
Tobacco Company Restaurant
1201 E Cary St. Richmond, VA 23219

 

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RVAsec CTF Update

RVAsec is just about a week away and we are excited for many reasons!

This year’s conference marks several firsts:

  • two days of talks
  • two speaker tracks
  • and of course the first RVAsec Capture the Flag (CTF) event!

For more details about the CTF, please check out http://rvasec.com/ctf/

We’ve had a number of people pre-register (http://securabit.com/ctf/), which is fantastic, and you can pre-register all the way up to the day before CTF. The only requirements are that you are an RVAsec attendee and you bring your own laptop. You can even show up to the CTF and participate without pre-registration, space permitting.

And, of course, there are prizes!

1st Place – Nexus 7 PwnPad
2nd Place – Raspberry Pi
3rd Place – 1 BSides Las Vegas ticket
4th Place – 1 BSides Las Vegas ticket
5th Place – The highest of fives


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After Party Sponsored by Rapid7

Rapid7 is hosting the RVAsec after party on Friday, May 31 at the Tobacco Company! The event takes place right after the conference ends–so just head from VCU down to Shockoe Slip for some cocktails and appetizers!

Please be sure to sign up for this event using this link:
http://information.rapid7.com/rvasec-conference-party.html

Event Details:
Friday May 31st 6:30pm-9:30PM
Tobacco Company Restaurant
1201 E Cary St. Richmond, VA 23219

 

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RVAsec Hotel Block Almost Full!

The reserved RVAsec block of rooms at the Crowne Plaza is almost full!  If you need a room for the conference please book as soon as possible.

The rate is $112/night (which includes parking)– when you call ask to speak with “in-house reservations” and mention the block “RVAsec” to get the special rate.  Unfortunately, you will need to call the hotel to get the rate and cannot get the rate online.

Crowne Plaza Richmond Downtown
555 East Canal Street, Richmond VA 23219

804-788-0900 or 800-2CROWNE

The hotel has a shuttle that runs back and forth from the conference location at VCU for both days.

When the RVAsec block is full or is expired we cannot extend it.  If for some reason you need another hotel here is a link to some near the conference location.

RVAsec 2013 is SOLD OUT!

We are pleased to announce that RVAsec 2013 is now sold out and we look forward to a great event! In the coming days we will provide some additional information about the conference to all that have registered.

There are a few spots remaining for training classes and registration will remain open until Midnight Eastern Timezone.

See you soon!