Black Hat USA 2019 Event Coverage | A Conversation With Stephanie “Snow” Carruthers

By Marco Ciappelli & Sean Martin

I happen to know some of the more skilled social engineers in the cybersecurity industry, and during Hacker Summer Camp 2019, Sean Martin and I were invited to meet one of the best.

You probably know her. She goes by the handle @sn0ww. This is her story.

Do you want to hear it? Of course, you do. No, really, you do. You don’t want to be the only one not listening to it, do you?

Go ahead, type your in your SSN, and click play... 🔥😇😈🔥

Black Hat USA 2019 Event Coverage | A Conversation With Charity Wright

By Marco Ciappelli & Sean Martin

No doubt, we are living interesting times—full of incredible technological advancements and achievements. Yet, we still get to see the other side of the picture—cybercrime at its worst.

The dark web is peaking on a global scale. Last year, there were over 4 million users on TOR, and, with that, we are seeing some other “interesting” trends. It’s these trends which lead us to our second conversation with Charity—this time during Black Hat 2019.

Hacker Summer Camp Event Coverage | Cybersecurity Woman of the Year — 2019 Awards

By Sean Martin &  Marco Ciappelli

We care deeply and passionately about creating a diverse cybersecurity workforce — not just when it come to gender, but also for background, origin, age, religion, neuro-makeup, and more — essentially anything and everything that makes us unique; makes us human. We hope to reach a point where we no longer have to shake the box to remind ourselves of the benefits associated with diversity, but until we reach that point, you’ll find us shaking things up at the intersection of technology, cybersecurity, and society. With this, we ask you to celebrate with us the successes these cybersecurity leaders have achieved.

Chats On The Road To Hacker Summer Camp 2019 | DEF CON 27 — AppSec Village | A Conversation With Erez Yalon, Liora Herman, and Jim Manico

By Sean Martin &  Marco Ciappelli

It’s also important to recognize that the products and solutions (and applications) we are building a using are comprised of multiple components from all of the place—custom, commercial, and open source—and from all over the world.

At the end of the day, we’re all speaking about code and we all need to write secure code. Start speaking about it with your peers at the inaugural AppSec Village at DEF CON 27. But first, have listen to this chat to learn more.

Chats On The Road To Hacker Summer Camp 2019 | DEF CON 27 — Policymakers | A Conversation With Meg King and Beau Woods

By Marco Ciappelli & Sean Martin

Black and blue, and who knows which is which, and who is who?

It is a matter of perspective and a matter of time — and given the right knowledge, these usually change together. Don't they? What is at stake and what we are fighting for can change yesterday's foe into tomorrow's best ally. But what about today?

I believe that today in technology and infosec, we are at the crossroad where Sean and I have been waiting for a few years now. Exactly 4 years ago, when we founded ITSPmagazine, we did it because we wanted to have the conversation that media, politicians, business owners, technology experts, and politicians were not having yet - and, most still don't.

Chats On The Road To Hacker Summer Camp 2019 | DEF CON 27 — Aviation Village | A Conversation With Pete Cooper

By Sean Martin &  Marco Ciappelli

Sticking with the transportation theme from some of our DEF CON 26 conversations, for this next chat we take a look under the hood of another new village introduced for DEF CON 27 — the Aviation Village.

To help us understand how multiple parties can (and are) working together to understand the risks, how to mitigate them, and the challenges getting all of the cybersecurity dots connected throughout the entire ecosystem, we connected with one of the leaders of the Aviation Village, Pete Cooper.

Chats On The Road To Hacker Summer Camp 2019 | Wicked6 Games Competitors

By Sean Martin & Marco Ciappelli

In this chats on the road to Hacker Summer Camp in Las Vegas, you’ll get to hear from the following Wicked6 Cyber Games contestants:

Nouran Alotaibi represents the University of North Carolina Wilmington
Team: Cyber Seahawks

Shilpa Joshy represents University Of Colorado Boulder
Team: BuffOvrFlows

Franklin Pearson represents ECPI Columbia
Team: D0wn the L1ne

We have three great stories to share in this chat. Have a listen!

How To Do An InfoSec Con Right: ISSA-LA Summit Does It Again [Part 2]

By Francesco Cipollone

Location, location, location and amazing content is enough of a reason to describe why AppSec California and ISSA-LA are rapidly becoming THE security conferences in SoCal and the places to be. But if that’s not enough to make sure it’s on your to-do list for 2020 — in this special guest post, Francesco breaks down the ISSA-LA conference into specific sessions to tell you more. [Part 2 of 2]

How To Protect Your Data, Devices, and Privacy During Hacker Summer Camp

By Marija Atanasova

#HackerSummerCamp is almost upon us. A plethora of security conferences — Black Hat, BSides, DEF CON, Queercon, Wicked6 Games, The Diana Initiative, and so much more — are all happening in Las Vegas on the same week (Aug 3 - 11).

With the infosec community about to overtake the city in a few days, how are hackers and civilian attendees protecting their data, devices and privacy during the conference? This guide provides you with a few tips.

Chats On The Road To RSA Conference 2019 APJ | Inaugural Launch Pad Event | A Conversation With Matthias Yeo

By Sean Martin & Marco Ciappelli

In today’s chat, we are joined by Matthias Yeo, CEO, Fund Technologies Pte Ltd. Matthis is one of three judges responsible for naming the winner at this year’s inaugural Launch Pad Event (for which we are the exclusive media partner!). We really enjoyed our chat with Matthias as we learned more about the state of cybersecurity and innovation in the region coupled with his vision for the inaugural Launch Pad event.

Chats On The Road To Hacker Summer Camp | Black Hat And DEF CON | Las Vegas 2019

As part of ITSPmagazine's Hacker Summer Camp 2019 coverage, the team at ITSPmagazine will be hitting the road again as Marco and Sean make their way to Las Vegas to connect with a number of the Black Hat and DEF CON conference keynote speakers, presenters, panelists, and more. We'll use this chronicle to capture the conversations we have so you can find them all in one place. Stay tuned here for more updates as we stop at various places along our journey to Hacker Summer Camp.

Chats On The Road To Hacker Summer Camp 2019 | DEF CON 27 | A Conversation With Jeff Moss

By Marco Ciappelli & Sean Martin

In 1993 according to Timeline of Computer History, we have a few major events:

Doom and Myst are released, Jurassic Park is released, Wired Magazine debuts, Apple ships the first Newton, Free BSD is launched, Gopher Stumbles, Intel Pentium microprocessor is released, Microsoft Windows NT is released, Mosaic popularize the web, online ads kicks off the commercialization of the web.

You know what else happened in 1993? A person that goes by the handle @thedarktangent created the first DEF CON hacker convention. This is his story about the past, present, and future of hacker cons.

Chats From InfoSec Europe 2019 | A Conversation With Javvad Malik

By Marco Ciappelli & Sean Martin

Why do we go to conferences?

To meet fantastic people, create great content, and tell entertaining stories. Sometimes it all happens at the same time.

This was one of those occasions.

We hope you enjoy listening to this chat as much as we enjoyed having it.

Chats From InfoSec Europe 2019 | A conversation With Troy Hunt

By Marco Ciappelli & Sean Martin

It was a bright, cold day in June, and the clocks were striking thirty past nine in the morning. On this last day on the Olympia show floor in London, after a few unsuccessful attempts, Sean and I were finally able to say hi, sit down, and have a good ole chat with Troy Hunt while we sipped on a cup of hot coffee. Yes, a podcast with Mr. Troy Hunt!

Chats On The Clouds To InfoSec Europe 2019 | The Largest InfoSec Summit In Europe Brings People Together | With Nicole Mills, Senior Exhibition Director, Infosecurity Group

By Sean Martin & Marco Ciappelli

In today’s chat, Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin connect with Nicole Mills, the event director for Infosecurity Europe. Nicole took time out of her final moments of preparation to share with us what we can expect during the 24th edition of the summit taking place in the Olympia in London.

With more than 12 months invested in planning, attendees will be treated to 10 stages with talks taking place all day, every day, over 400 exhibitors with demonstrations and hands-on activities, and networking events within and outside the conference center. Listen in to hear more about the event that has a lot of something for everyone. And, if you have a moment while on-site at the event, thank Nicole, and her extended team, for their hard work bringing us all together to help each live a victorious and healthy InfoSec Life.

Chats On The Clouds To InfoSec 2019 | London

As part of ITSPmagazine's InfoSec Europe 2019 coverage, the team at ITSPmagazine will be hitting the clouds, so to speak, as they make their way to London, England, to connect with a number of the conference keynote speakers, presenters, panelists, and more. We'll use this chronicle to capture the conversations we have so you can find them all in one place. Stay tuned here for more updates as we stop at various places along our journey to InfoSec.

Chats On The Clouds To InfoSec Europe 2019 | Marketing Security to the Board & Execs | With Killian Faughnan, Group CISO, William Hill

By Sean Martin & Marco Ciappelli

In today’s chat, Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin speak with Killian Faughnan, Group CISO, William Hill. During the conversation, In addition to getting some insight into how Killian looks at cybersecurity as a whole, during our chat today we got to dig into the lightning talk Killian will be giving during InfoSec Europe in London as part of a 4-part keynote session titled Building Brand Infosec: Engaging Employees to Drive Secure Behaviour.

Chats On The Clouds to InfoSec Europe 2019 | Skills and the Future of CyberSecurity | With Kevin Fielder, CISO, Just Eat

By Sean Martin & Marco Ciappelli

In today’s chat, Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin speak with Kevin Fielder, CISO for Just Eat. During the conversation, Kevin shares his views on cybersecurity and what it means to secure the business at Just Eat, focusing on the 13 countries, 100,000 restaurant partners, 26 million customers, nearly 4000 colleagues in the company.

Official Launch Of The Cyber Ireland Cluster | County Cork

By Sean Martin

Guests: Eoin Byrne, Jacky Fox, Pat Larkin

Lead by IDA Ireland with support from Enterprise Ireland and in collaboration with academia, industry, and government, Cyber Ireland officially launched on 20 May, 2019 as the official establishment of a National Cyber Security Cluster in Ireland, hosted at Cork Institute of Technology. In addition to attending the event, I recorded a podcast with some of the board members and captured some pictures as well.