Author: Johnathan Wong

November Meeting and Git

Hello everyone. I hope the last few weeks haven’t been too tiring because our first workshop is coming up soon. Our next meeting is on November 1st, 2019 and will consist of a 20min news roundup with Nick then Git Workshop until 9:30 with Adam Burek in J102.

This workshop has been designed with the following points in mind:

  • Beginner Friendly
  • Provide an overview of Git and Github
    • What is it and why is it useful?
    • Why is it useful for us?
  • Provide context for using this in our program classes/assignments

Hardware and Software Requirements:

Please download the installers or ask for help with obtaining the installers as the workshop will also cover installation. As virtual machine images take a long time to download, please have at least these prepared for the workshop.

For any questions about the requirements and/or what to expect, you may contact @Louai or @AdamB directly on our Discord server! That’s it folks! We are so excited for this workshop and we hope you are too!

Workshop Schedule and more!

The ISSessions club is proud to announce that we have planned out our workshop schedule for the Fall term. Many thanks to our volunteer hosts for each workshop as these would be happening without you. The schedule is as follows:

  • Meeting + Mini-Worskshop: An Intro to Git – Friday, November 1, 7:00PM-9:30PM By Adam Burek
  • Smashing the Web: SQL Injection & Cross-Site Scripting – Friday, November 8, 7:00PM-9:30PM By Spencer Lee
  • Beware the Malware: A Gentle Introduction To Malware Analysis Series #1 – Wednesday, November 13, 7:00PM-9:30PM By Jason Hong and Ken Onuralp
  • An Intro to Red Teaming – Saturday, November 23, 9:30AM-5:30PM By Benjamin Maher, Director of Advisory, Security Compass
  • Beware the Malware: A Gentle Introduction To Malware Analysis Series #2 – Wednesday, November 27, 7:00PM-9:30PM By Jason Hong and Ken Onuralp

Next semester, we will have more workshops on Assembly, Lockpicking, Soldering, and so much more!!

Don’t forget: we will still be having meetings on Nov 15 and Nov 29.

A Slice of Blue Team

Date: 2019-10-04
Time: 19:00 – 20:25
Location: Room J102, Sheridan Trafalgar Campus, Oakville
Agenda
19:00 – Announcements with Louai
19:05 – News Roundup with Nick and Adam
19:25 – Rick’s Random Repo Rundown
19:35 – Feature Story with Adam and Louai
19:55 – Guest Speaker Matthew Siuda on Introduction to Blue Teaming
20:25 – Wrap and refreshments (across the street at the pub)

As the title implies, defense or “Blue Teaming” will be the focus of our talks. While the news often talks about X being hacked or Y having a data breach, the defense perspective often goes unnoticed to the scope of media as the main meat of the story goes to the actual attack.

A blue team is a defensive organizational unit that focuses on maintaining and verifying security controls, as well as investigating security events. Next week, we will dive into the deep-blue where our host Matthew Siuda will go over the challenges, misconceptions, and benefits of being a blue teamer.

Matthew Siuda (@suedeSecurity) is a Security Analyst at Teranet. Teranet is a 25+ year old data organization that manages the Electronic-Land-Registration-System (ELRS) for the Government of Ontario. Drawing from his experiences, he will walk you through his daily life as a blue teamer where he comes face to face with corporate politics and emerging technologies in a rapidly evolving industry.

I hope to see you all there next week!