Author: Yusef

Date: 2020-11-12 (THURSDAY)
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Location: VIRTUAL (Discord + YouTube)

Agenda:
19:00 – Kickoff – Kurt
19:10 – News Roundup – Adam & Cem
19:30 – Project Den – Louai
19:55 – Break
20:00 – Protecting the Crown Jewels – Prashant Lal

This week’s ISSessions is going to be a treat for you all! Make sure you join in at 7:00 PM EST on Thursday, November 12th, either through Discord or YouTube.

This week we have our community manager Cem and alumni Adam delivering their hot takes on the news followed by a Project Den from vice presidente Louai. Then, after a short break we will come back with our night’s special guest speaker – Prashant Lal. Prashant is an Enterprise Architect working at Oracle Canada ULC and will be presenting a fascinating talk on “Database Security: Protecting the Crown Jewels.”

Database Security: Protecting the Crown Jewels
According to Forbes, there are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day. To even wrap your head around that number is difficult, but how about keeping it secure?

Prashant is an Enterprise Architect working at Oracle Canada ULC, and he has graciously offered to show us how Oracle converged databases are the future of database security. Just as the smartphone combined a camera, notebook, laptop, and browser into an exceptionally convenient form factor, Oracle aims to do the same with databases. This convergence was implemented in response to the modern, large-scale sophisticated web applications that required much more functionality(and inherently more security) than what other companies were providing. We hope to see you all there! You definitely won’t want to miss this ISSessions meet-up 🙂

– ISSessions Executive Team

Date: 2020-10-29 (THURSDAY)
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Location: VIRTUAL (Discord + YouTube)

Agenda:
19:00 – Kickoff – Kurt
19:10 – News Roundup – Adam & Yusef
19:30 – Project Den – Homelab Headache – Kurt
19:50 – Break 20:00 – The Wonderful World of Information Security – John Simpson

For those who just had midterms, we hope you did well and can now rest easy during your reading week! That being said, there is no better way to relax than joining us for a chill and laid back ISSessions this Thursday, October 29th @ 7:00 PM. We have a great night planned with some games towards the end 🙂

Starting off the night, we have the news roundup by Adam & Yusef! Following the news, Kurt will present a project-den focused on using old enterprise hardware in homelabs. Then, John Simpson will be giving his renewed 2020 version of “The Wonderful World of Information Security.” A great talk that John gives annually to help first and second years out with ISS. Lastly, join us to blow off some steam with your fellow peers playing JackBox games![

John Simpson
John graduated from the Sheridan Information Systems Security program in 2015 and is currently a vulnerability researcher and team lead with Trend Micro in Toronto. He started his career with a coop position at Deloitte and stayed on board after graduation, working in Security Operations Center engineering and vulnerability assessment/penetration testing roles.

In his current position, John reverse engineers vulnerabilities to write proof-of-concept exploits and devise network detection strategies to catch exploitation attempts. During the last 4.5 years in his current role, he has discovered several new vulnerabilities, authored blog posts for Trend Micro and Zero Day Initiative, and spoken at several conferences.

The Wonderful World of Information Security
John will be presenting the 2020 version of his annual talk “The Wonderful World of Information Security,” which aims to provide students new to the program with an overview of the potential career paths in the Information Security industry as well as his tips for success in navigating the Information Systems Security degree program at Sheridan and the early stages of a career in InfoSec.


There’s no doubt this will be a fun ISSessions – come and see for yourself! Learn, laugh, and play some games with your wonderful club this Thursday! We’ll see you all then AND remember… be there or be sacred…

– ISSessions Exec Team