2019 Secure Miami

This past weekend I attended 2019 Secure Miami conference, the third edition of this local cybersecurity conference.  Organized by DigitalEra, and held at FIU, it also tied to BrewMiami, held later that day at FIU.

This was a full day event held in FIU's Graham Center with key note speakers and panel discussions.  As I've been to the prior events, I felt this as good or better then the last one.

On the panel discussions, topics covered included the "Cybersecurity skills gap", "managing visibility and compliance" and "smart cities".  The skills gap discussion was interesting, as I know several who struggle to find work and our hiring process in IT/infosec is broken.  Had a good chat with one of the people on the panel about the NICE conference that we had at FIU and learned the next one will be in Phoenix.  The smart cities one got into the matter about IoT security and the like.  We'll see where that goes.

On the keynotes, they had an interesting one given by a former FBI Agent and his experiences, and another about artificial intelligence.  AI was a topic I had a keen interest in college, but drifted away from, that seems to have become more a topic in infosec.  I need to get back on top of that.

Afterwards many of us headed over to the BrewMiami event and chatted and had fun.  Another great event.  I look forward to next year's event, as well as other upcoming events in the area:  ISACA South Florida's WOW event, Infragard South Florida's next meeting, South Florida ISSA's Conference and HackMiamiCon.

SFISSA's 2018 Hack the Flag and Chili Cookoff

The South Florida ISSA Chapter is again held our annual Hack the Flag/Chili Cookoff in October of 2018.  For the third year we were hosted at FIU's Graham Center on their main campus.

As always, we had 2 games, a beginner and an advanced.  We had a lockpick village.  We had food and drink.  And we had a keynote speaker!   Oh, and our chili cookoff.

SecureMiami 2016- Dec 10th @ FIU

If you're in the South Florida area, we have a new one day security event coming up down at the FIU main campus in Dade:  SecureMiami.

This event is being organized by DigitatEra, FIU, and the South Florida ISSA Chapter and sponsored by several vendors.

Its a 3 hour event starting at 2pm at FIU's Graham Center Balllroom (GC 140), located at 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33199.  Not sure about parking, but I assume will be in either the Blue or Gold parking lots near the Graham Center.

Tickets are FREE and can be obtained from the above website.

Following the event is BrewMiami at the FIU Stadium.  More info on that can be obtained from the SecureMiami event page.

SFISSA 2016 Hack the Flag/Chili Cookoff UPDATE

The South Florida ISSA Chapter is again our annual Hack the Flag/Chili Cookoff in 2016.  This is looking to be our biggest ever.

New location.

New stuff,

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South Florida ISSA's 2016 Hack the Flag/Chili Cookoff event

For as long as I can remember, the South Florida ISSA Chapter has been hosting an annual Hack the Flag/Chili Cookoff.  We have a 'capture the flag' event, where teams work against each other to hack a system and collect 'flags'.  We've accompanied this with a chili cookoff (along with food and drinks), as not everyone does the CTF.  Most years we've had some kind of theme (russian, brazilian, asian, etc), and the last few we've had t-shirts.  Over the years we've been in a few different places (I can recall 5 different ones).  A couple of years ago we added a lockpick village as well.

Our event was bigger last year as we were celebrating our 15th Anniversary.  We had a bounce house and some other things.