NETWORK SECURITY PRESENTS: AN EXCLUSIVE ALUMNIGHT IN LAS VEGAS.

Thursday, September 7th 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

This exciting event highlights the large variety of offensive skills taught across multiple courses in the Offensive Operations curriculum. Test your skills against challenges based on network penetration testing, web, and binary exploitation as well as programming and forensics challenges. Our CTF winner will receive any FREE Offensive Operations course of their choosing in North America!

Prerequisites:

• Players are expected to have rudimentary knowledge of the Linux and Windows operating systems
• Players should feel comfortable with computer networking
• Players are encouraged to have experience with hacking distros: Kali Linux, ParrotOS, Pentoo
• Previous CTF experience is encouraged

Attendance Options: In-Person Only

Thank you for your interest in our Alum Night. This event is at capacity

Thursday, September 7th 6:45 pm - 8:45 pm

Author: Terrence Williams, Community Instructor

Brief: The world is changing and so is the data we need to conduct our investigations. Cloud platforms change how data is stored and accessed. They remove an investigator’s ability to put their hands directly on the data. Many investigators are trying to force old methods for on-premise examination onto cloud-hosted platforms. Rather than resisting change, threat hunters and investigators must learn to embrace the new opportunities presented to them in the form of new cloud-based evidence sources. This workshop will give attendees an insight into the rapidly changing world of enterprise cloud environments by uncovering the new evidence sources that only exist in the Cloud and contemporary techniques for conducting threat hunting and investigations.

This workshop aims to advance the knowledge of security and incident response professionals when it comes to approaching cloud-based platforms. While several commercial vendors offer capabilities to collect evidence from cloud platforms, this workshop will focus on how teams can acquire evidence and data without requiring proprietary information or software. For this workshop, in-depth exercises are included throughout to provide hands-on experience for attendees to practice the knowledge presented in the workshop.

Prerequisites:

This is an advanced incident response and threat hunting workshop. We do not cover the introduction or basics of incident response, host-based digital forensics, or hacker techniques, and a familiarity with these skills and concepts will be assumed. Given the short timeframe that the workshop will run, some basic knowledge of cloud platforms is assumed, but not critical.

Laptop Requirements:

You will not be able to participate in the workshop exercises without a Windows or macOS based laptop. Laptops will not be supplied. Please ensure your laptop meets the minimum requirements of:

• The latest version of Windows 10 or macOS 10.15.x
• A valid version of VMWare Fusion/Workstation/Player
• BIOS settings must be set to enable virtualization technology, such as "Intel-VT".
• 16 GB (Gigabytes) of RAM or higher
• Administrator access
• Ability to disable AV
• No application whitelisting enabled
• The ability to disable third-party protection systems if needed
• Software to unzip a ZIP file
• At least 100Gb of free space
• Wireless networking to connect to the conference network
• USB 3.0 Type-A port is required

CRITICAL NOTE: Apple systems using the M1 processor line cannot perform the necessary virtualization functionality and therefore cannot in any way be used for this course.

Attendance Options: In-Person Only