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Join Cyber Florida Senior Fellow Stacy Arruda, Founder and CEO of the Arruda Group and former FBI Supervisory Special Agent, for an eye-opening experience that will help you better understand how to prevent and recover from cyberattacks. The event starts with Network Noise, a three-hour tabletop exercise where real-world cyberattack scenarios illustrate the far-reaching effects a cyberattack can inflict on your organization. Bring your leadership team to learn how cyberattacks impact not only IT but also legal, finance, operations, human resources, public relations, and other departments.

Once you understand the threat, move on to preparation with a session on creating a comprehensive cyber incident response plan specific to your organization. You’ll leave equipped with a template and foundational plan you can take back to complete and test with your organization.

This workshop is presented in partnership with the Pasco Sheriff’s Office.

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Please register in advance for this event using the form below. The registration deadline is December 10, 2023.

Venue & Directions

Forensic Institute for Research, Security, and Tactics
Innovation Building Classroom
10370 Charles Bo Harrison Way, Land O’ Lakes, FL 34637

SOFWERX, in collaboration with USSOCOM’s Directorate of Science and Technology (S&T) Futures, will host the fourteenth Innovation Foundry (IF14) Event in Tampa, FL, which intends to bring together Special Operations Forces (SOF), industry, academia, national labs, government, and futurists in an exploration, design thinking, facilitated event to assist USSOCOM in decomposing future scenarios and missions.

Political, social, and technological developments will have an increasing impact on the future of world societies. Organizations, militaries, governments, and entire economies rely on complex digital infrastructures for their operations. The safety and reliability of these information systems are of significant concern to organizations around the world, while malicious actors seek to exploit vulnerabilities to achieve their ends. Because of this, cyber security has been a focus of increasing attention and will be of critical importance in the future operational environment.

The theme of IF14 is SOF Aspects of Cyber Security in 2035. The event seeks to explore the nature of cyber security operations and infrastructure in 2035 and SOF’s role in this environment.

Specific areas of interest include the growth of digital infrastructure for civilian and military systems; the impact of artificial intelligence technologies in the design, implementation, exploitation, and securing of information systems; the impact of innovative communications, networking, and control systems on future cyber infrastructure; advancements of quantum computing and encryption tools; as well as offensive and defensive approaches including prevention, pre-emption, detection, isolation, defeat, and the exploitation of digital vulnerabilities.

The event will be a compelling opportunity for leading minds in industry, academia, labs, and government, as well as subject matter experts (SMEs) to collaborate and ideate with other experts.

Looking to kickstart your career in technology? Don’t miss out on Tech Match 2023 – a job fair and networking event for businesses, technology professionals, and students.

In today's world, almost all activities take place over the internet, such as banking, homework assignments, television programs, phone conversations, and more. While the internet has positively impacted the way we work, learn, and communicate, it is also used by those with malicious intentions.

During this hands-on webinar, experts from Stamus Networks will demonstrate what bad actors do, how malware operates, and how to detect and catch these intrusions. We will also walk through the basic principles of network threat hunting and will demonstrate how to uncover ransomware and Advanced Persistent Threats.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Use Suricata as a monitoring tool
• Chase APTs and malware actors, known and unknown
• Hunt and investigate using open-source tools
• Recognize types of malware, behaviors, and current trends

Agenda:

• Introduction
• Speaker introduction
• Experience/feedback in malware IR/hunting/investigations
• Goal of Network Forensics – purpose and how it’s collected & analyzed
• Overview of Suricata as a monitoring tool
• Pyramid of pain (chasing APTs and malware actors, knowns and unknowns)
• Overview of Ransomware (types of malware, behaviors, current trends)
• Case-study: walk through an example of APT case
• Hunting and investigation: Easiest way to spin up a complete network monitoring distro
• with Suricata for Hunting, teaching and investigations comprised of only open-source tools (docker-based, runs on Linux: Ubuntu/Debian etc)
• Case-study (hands-on): live example of Ransomware malware network traffic
• Free and OSS Resources for malware training , data and investigations
• Q/A

Join us for an engaging discussion on Cybersecurity Careers with Stacey Hatola, VP of Information Security and Privacy at Graham Holdings Company. Stacey Halota joined Graham Holdings Company (then The Washington Post Company) in 2003. She leads the development and implementation of information security and privacy programs, including Sarbanes Oxley, privacy law, Payment Card Industry compliance, and other data protection efforts. She has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology, security, and privacy field. Before joining Graham Holdings, she served as the federal government and southeast region leader of Guardent (now part of Verisign), a security and privacy consulting and managed security services company. Before Guardent, she worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Technology Risk Services consulting practice.

Ms. Halota serves on the strategic advisory boards of Y/L Ventures, Cytrio, the Cloud Security Alliance CxO Trust, and Piiano; the Board of Directors of the National Technology Security Coalition (NTSC); and is a Cyversity Ambassador. She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP).