We know you don’t need additional incentive to come out to monthly RISE meetings. But a little icing on the cake never hurts. Did you know that you can earn continuing professional education (CPE) credits for your (ISC)2 certifications through participation in RISE?
June 2019 – Covering Your aaS (Cloud Security)
Commercial cloud offerings have been available for several years, yet some data and application owners still struggle to secure their assets. Properly securing your cloud resources and accounts is critical to avoid loss of sensitive data, financial loss, and the associated impact to business reputation.
Meeting Notes – Sniffing Active Directory with Bloodhound
Aaron McPhall put together an excellent brief on using Bloodhound as a blue teaming tool to identify unknown or unintended avenues of privilege escalation in your Active Directory infrastructure. If you missed out – don’t despair! View a recording of the brief on the RISE YouTube channel.
Aaron has also made his slides available here.
RISE extends special thanks to the following for their support of this event:
ABS Technology – Hosting and fantastic refreshments
R&K Solutions – Live-streaming and recording support
RBTC presents “How to Treat Your Hacker”
The Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council’s Cyber Security Forum is hosting an event “How to Treat Your Hacker”. This event features Monta Elkins of FoxGuard Solutions discussing how to handle responsible disclosures both from perspectives of both the security researcher and vulnerable organization. Follow the link for more details and registration.
SyCom SOC Launch Social
SyCom Technologies, a local IT solutions provider and RISE supporter, is holding a social event to celebrate the launch of their Security Operations Center. The event will be held on June 18th at Parkway Brewing in Salem, VA. Registered attendees will learn about this new cybersecurity offering and have the opportunity to network with other IT professionals over refreshments and appetizers courtesy of SyCom and their partner, Cybersafe Solutions. For more information, email SyCom at events@sycomtech.com.
(ISC)2 – Cyber Safety and Education for Children
The Center for Cyber Safety and Education is a charitable organization formed by the cybersecurity professional organization (ISC)2. The Center provides educational materials designed to educate and raise awareness of cybersecurity and cyberbullying. Visitors to the site can find information on cybersecurity research, scholarships, and educational packages designed to teach cybersecurity to elementary children – including free, downloadable basic packages for classes up to 20 students. Materials present concepts and situations at a fundamental level so non-IT professionals can share the message of cyber safety.
May 2019 – Sniffing Active Directory with Bloodhound
Many organizations, large and small, maintain an Active Directory environment. Over time even well-managed AD environments will suffer the crud of forgotten objects. Emergency changes and other unique additions often create resources that don’t follow established governance policy. Coping with system sprawl is a fact of life in most organizations. Our tools must help us cope with this and ensure that unintended vulnerabilities are introduced into the environment.
Meeting Notes – Blockchain
We had a great turnout and some insightful discussion for our April meeting covering Blockchain. While the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto remains a secret, Rob Perry enlightened the crowd with an overview of Blockchain and his insights on suitable and not-so-suitable applications.
Virtual Machines on Linux with Kali (ROALUG)
Our friends at the Roanoke Linux Users Group will be presenting Virtual Machines on Linux – focusing on running Kali Linux in a virtual environment. This is a great opportunity to learn about different virtualization platforms such as Virtual Box and setting up your own Kali environment. Follow the link for more information and to RSVP for this event!
Local Events updated!
We’ve updated the Local Events page with some interesting InfoSec events and conferences within driving distance of the RISE area. These are great opportunities for broadening your knowledge, honing your professional skills, and networking with some other great InfoSec community members!
If you attend one of these events, we would love to hear from you! Send us an email with your thoughts and experiences on the event. Consider creating a presentation for an upcoming RISE meeting highlighting the event or diving into one of the skills you learned. If presentations aren’t your game, write up an article and submit to us for posting on our blog! Whatever you do, get out there – keep learning and share with others that you found them through RISE so we can spread the word to other potential area memberss!
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