# Nerd Event - Buffalo ISSA
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [January 29, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580 "2015-01-29T18:04:30Z")
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/1 "2015-01-29T18:04:30Z")
I know there is a handful of nerds in here figured I would post this up and throw out the invite.
> **[February Buffalo Niagara ISSA Meeting](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/february-buffalo-niagara-issa-meeting-tickets-15094804968)**
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> BNISSA is excited to announce that David Kennedy will be speaking at UB on February 11th from 6:00-7:30
> Talk Title: INFOSEC: Fighting our way to a better tomorrow
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> Description: It seems that businesses are truly struggling with how to handle the...
Dave Kennedy is coming to speak at Buffalo ISSA at UB on February 11th event is free and open to anyone there will be a number of people from the industry there and students from the UB Net defense class which im an advisor for which means pretty wide age and skill range.
Talk Title: INFOSEC: Fighting our way to a better tomorrow
Description: It seems that businesses are truly struggling with how to handle the threats we face as organizations when it comes to information security. From breach to breach, the techniques seem similar yet they completely rip through everything we’ve tried to protect against. As an industry, we’re fighting to define ourselves in a manner where we can actively combat the different demographics we see from attackers. This presentation will walk through what we face as organizations, both politically as well as an industry. Information security isn’t a technology problem – it’s a social issue. Until we recognize that, we will continue to see the continued breaches year after year as we continue to battle (and lose) the same types of attacks. There’s a lot of talk inside the industry on technical controls, products, adversarial simulation, and more for strengthening our defenses. These couldn’t be further away from what we really need to combat these types of attacks. This talk will also be demonstrating effective measures to combat some of the main techniques attackers use in order to attack an organization.
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BIO: Dave Kennedy is founder of TrustedSec and Binary Defense Systems. Both organizations focus on the betterment of the security industry from an offense and a defense perspective. David was the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) for a Fortune 1000 company where he ran the entire information security program. Kennedy is a co-author of the book “Metasploit: The Penetration Testers Guide,” the creator of the Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET), and Artillery. Kennedy has been interviewed by several news organizations including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, Katie Couric, and BBC World News. Kennedy is the co-host of the social-engineer podcast and on a number of additional podcasts. Kennedy has testified in front of Congress on two occasions on the security around government websites. Kennedy is one of the co-authors of the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES); a framework designed to fix the penetration testing industry. Kennedy is the co-founder of DerbyCon, a large-scale conference in Louisville Kentucky. Prior to Diebold, Kennedy was a VP of Consulting and Partner of a mid-size information security consulting company running the security consulting practice. Prior to the private sector, Kennedy worked for the United States Marine Corps and deployed to Iraq twice for intelligence related missions.[/FONT]
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### Author:  [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/2 "2015-01-29T18:17:52Z")
I’m not IT SEC enough for this.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/3 "2015-01-29T20:42:01Z")
:tup:
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 4:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/4 "2015-01-30T04:26:54Z")
> [@ProgRocker](#):
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> I’m not IT SEC enough for this.
Yea why do something to help better your career :lol:
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### Author:  [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/5 "2015-01-30T04:31:51Z")
Yeah but if all the lectures and presentations are over my head, I have a tough time with it.
I was sent to a Sharepoint conference in Chicago a few years back. I had never touched Sharepoint, seen sharepoint, we didn’t even have Sharepoint licenses. So needless to say the presentations by Microsoft MVPs, that were tailored to SP veterans about load balancing your web frontends in a farm were way over my head.
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### Author:  [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 5:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/6 "2015-01-30T05:34:45Z")
> [@LZ](#):
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> Yea why do something to help better your career :lol:
It’s not like anyone going does anything but hack all the things. Why mingle with other IT folks?
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### Author:  [@BOBBYGRV](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BOBBYGRV)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 6:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/7 "2015-01-30T06:59:21Z")
I may check this out. I talk to a lot of customers/prospects about data breach coverage, it seems to be something that a lot of business owner’s don’t think about, until it’s too late.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/8 "2015-01-30T07:23:20Z")
Dave’s talks are good. Anyone in IT should attend this.
My guess? You’re probably going to get a live demo of Dave hacking some stuff. That’s just a hunch 😉
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/9 "2015-02-10T15:02:49Z")
Bump for tomorrow
Everything in the talk is brand new material and its aimed at technical and non technical people.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/10 "2015-02-10T15:53:16Z")
Webex me in
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/11 "2015-02-10T16:37:21Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#):
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> Webex me in
If there is a live stream I will shoot you a link some how we are up to 91 registered people not count students I know didn’t register.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/12 "2015-02-10T18:12:15Z")
Awesome! :tup:
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/13 "2015-02-11T06:58:35Z")
I may stop by if I am awake after work. Coworker runs that group.
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### Author:  [@Haenszel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Haenszel)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 7:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nerd-event-buffalo-issa/271580/14 "2015-02-11T07:06:00Z")
> [@LZ](#):
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> If there is a live stream I will shoot you a link some how we are up to 91 registered people not count students I know didn’t register.
I’d watch a webex too. In training all week and am not feeling like sitting in another big room full of people after work this week.