I’m excited to announce that I will be speaking at BSides Nashville May 11, 2024. I will presenting my threat modeling talk which I’ve been blogging about the past couple of weeks. I’ll link the blog posts to the talk and pictures for past BSides events below. I’ve been going to BSides Nashville since it started in 2014. The first few years I attended I lived in Columbia, SC, which meant a seven hour drive to attend the conference. In 2016 I moved to Nashville and now consider it my home BSides conference.

It’s a really great event with a lot of great speakers and great spot. It’s also Nashville so getting into some fun (or trouble) is right around the corner. Prior to the pandemic they used to sell out 300 tickets very quickly. Post-pandemic they’ve struggled to get back to those number but so has every other local user group and conference. I’m expecting this year to be a big year for conference attendance not only for myself but the community. I believe people are ready to get back out there. More importantly the job market is influx and a lot of people are looking for jobs. The best way to do that is to get out and network with people at local user groups and conferences. If you’re planning to attend reach out and we can meet in person!

Threat modeling blog posts:

BSides Nashville Pictures:

BSides Nashville 2014

Bsides Nashville, TN, May 17, 2014.

BSides Nashville 2015

BSides Nashville, TN, April 11, 2015.

BSides Nashville 2016

BSides Nashville, TN, April 16, 2016

BSides Nashville 2017

Nashville, TN, April 22, 2017

BSides Nashville 2018

Nashville, TN, April 14, 2018

BSides Nashville 2019

Nashville, TN, April 13, 2019

BSides Nashville

I got picked up to do my Social Engineering for the Blue Team topic as a 25 minute talk. It's the last talk in the green room. Maybe I'll take that opportunity to see how long I talk before everyone leaves. Because it's in the green room, I'm going to try and give the talk a new twist.

I'll be at the conference as the photographer again. I've also been asked to help out with the resume and interview workshop. If you need help with your resume or interviewing stop by the workshop. I'm going to start preparing interview questions next week, which might make a good blog post.

Converge and BSides Detroit

The signup for my Social Engineering for the Blue Team workshop is up. It will be a four-hour workshop. Be sure to check out the other workshops. They're all fantastic and I wish I could go to all of them.

I've also been picked up as a speaker for the conference and we're in negotiations to do an Exploring Information Security panel. A year after I said I'd never speak twice at the same conference, I am now speaking three times. It's going to be awesome!

ShowMeCon

I'm back at ShowMeCon for my third year. This year I'll be doing a panel for the conference. Converge and ShowMeCon will be my first time hosting panels. I want to get it right while also making it something worth attending. The basic idea is to allow the audience to ask questions of the panel. Similar to what I do with guests on the podcast. It'll be an interesting experience and something I can pitch to other conferences.

This blog post first appear on Exploring Information Security