Huge THANK YOU to the Pen Testing Community, SecDSM and BSides Iowa for helping bring awareness and supporting this event.
BHIS hosted a one-day Awareness Conference in Adel, IA on November 20th to highlight the importance and effectiveness of Penetration Testing. The situation with Coalfire has demonstrated the need to better educate the community on methods used to improve security and keep people safe. Numerous presenters spoke to the current situation, how we can improve and what the community should know about Pen Tests.
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Speakers
John Strand
Owner & Security Analyst, Black Hills Information Security
John has both consulted and taught hundreds of organizations in the areas of security, regulatory compliance, and penetration testing. John is a contributor to the industry shaping Penetration Testing Execution Standard and 20 Critical Controls frameworks.
Sherri Davidoff
CEO of LMG Security
Aaron R. Warner
Founder of ProCircular InfoSec
Aaron R. Warner is the former CIO/CTO of Integrated DNA Technologies and the founder of ProCircular InfoSec – a full-service information security firm providing analysis, strategy and implementation of small and medium sized security and risk solutions.
Deviant Ollam
The CORE Group
While paying the bills as a security auditor and penetration testing consultant with The CORE Group, Deviant Ollam is also a member of the Board of Directors of the US division of TOOOL, The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers. His books Practical Lock Picking and Keys to the Kingdom are among Syngress Publishing’s best-selling pen testing titles. In addition to being a lockpicker, Deviant is also a GSA certified safe and vault technician and inspector.
Dave Kennedy
Founder, Senior Principal Security Consultant, Trusted Sec
Prior to starting TrustedSec, David was the Chief Security Officer (CSO) for Diebold Incorporated, a Fortune 1000 company, with locations in over 80 countries. He developed a global security program that tackled all aspects of information security and risk management.
David A. Nelson
Founder and CEO, Pratum
Dave is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with over 25 years of cybersecurity and technology experience. He is a Fellow with the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and has led cybersecurity and technology organizations in both the public and private sector.
Antoinette Stevens
Security Detection & Response Engineer for Cisco Meraki
In the community, Antoinette serves on the board for SecSM and dsmHack and is also an organizer for the BSides Iowa Security conference. In 2018, Antoinette was honored to be named as the youngest honoree on the Business Record’s Forty Under 40 list in recognition of her continued passion to create a more tech savvy Iowa. In 2016, Antoinette founded Reboot Iowa, a non profit dedicated to bridging the technical gap in Iowa through education. Reboot Iowa has since ceased operations but her passion for tech education continues on through her continued involvement in the community.
Benjamin Wright
Attorney Specialized In Data Security
Benjamin Wright is a practicing attorney based in Dallas, Texas, focusing on technology law. He serves as a Senior Instructor at the SANS Institute, and is the author and sole instructor of its 5-day course titled LEG523: Law of Data Security and Investigations.
Greg Hetrick
Global Head Red Team Operations Zurich Insurance
Greg is currently the Global Head for Red Team Operations at Zurich Insurance Group. Greg has also held roles in both blue and red teams for large and small companies in financial services, education and healthcare. Greg is very active in the community in Iowa, as the lead organizer and president of BSidesIowa and co-founder of SecIC a local security meetup group in Iowa City. Greg also serves as Vice President for the West Branch CSD Board of Education.
Jay Beale
CTO, Principal Security Consultant & Chairman, InGuardians
Jay Beale is Chief Operating Officer and a Principal Security Analyst for InGuardians. He is known for his work on mitigation technology, specifically in the form of operating system and application hardening. He’s written two of the most popular tools in this space which are used worldwide throughout government and private industry: Bastille Linux, a lockdown tool that introduced a vital security-training component, and the Center for Internet Security’s Unix Scoring Tool.
Jake Williams
Founder & President, Rendition Security
Jake runs a successful Infosec consultancy. He’s been involved in high-profile public sector cases including the malware analysis for the 2015 cyber attack on the Ukraine power grid. He’s also tackled a variety of cases in the private sector.
Trenton Ivey
Offensive Research and Development, Secureworks
Trenton has had the privilege of working with teams of skilled hackers to compromise some of the largest companies in the world. However, none of these potentially devastating breaches are public; they were all performed with the targeted organizations to help improve their security and prepare them for malicious attacks. Trenton has also worked on several high-profile incident-response engagements to provide the adversarial mindset as organizations respond and recover.
Chris Nickerson
Co-Founder of The Lares Team
Chris has spent 20 years in InfoSec, fighting to make customers more secure and dispelling the snake-oil services/products of other vendors. When Chris isn’t knee-deep in shoveling InfoSec FUD he is out on the ski slopes, playing with his dogs, or doing whatever his wife tells him to do.