OWASP CT Community Meetup

Agenda:

2-3pm: Yaxa (Startup security spotlight) - Kalpesh Sheth

*Introduction to Yaxa, part of Hartford's InsurTech startup accelerator
*Emerging trends in cyber threat vectors
*Which tools people are using and what security vendors are doing?
*What is state of the art – when hackers are changing their TTPs?
*Why users are the weakest link and what to do about it?

3-4pm: OWASP CT Chapter Meeting (2018 community initiatives)
*Who's hiring? Help
*What topics/challenges are security practitioners having and looking for assistance with?
*Community initiatives - What would folks like to see OWASP and local CT members doing?
*Cool vendors
*Blockchain Security Thinking

4pm: Networking / HH
City Steam Brewery
942 Main St, Hartford, CT 06103
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/ecN5G9BvjoK2

About Kalpesh Sheth:
With 20+ years of technical expertise in data networking, network security, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), and Cluster Computing, Kalpesh Sheth has been an instrumental leader in the execution of several complex development projects from inception to deployment. Sheth has served as a founding team member and senior executive at several successful startups and large companies. Before co-founding Yaxa, Sheth was Senior Technical Director at DRS Technologies (acquired by Finmeccanica S.p.A.), Director at RiverDelta Networks (acquired by Motorola and now part of Arris) and fifth employee of Digital Technology (acquired by Agilent Technologies). He is a co-author of VITA 41.6 an ANSI standard, and has spoken at numerous trade conferences as an expert panel member. Sheth holds M.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.

What to bring

*Ideas for community-based 2018 initiatives
*Security questions you're looking for help from other security pros in the area

Important to know

RSVP closes @ 4pm the day before the event as a list of names needs to be sent to building security. Please make sure your meetup name reflects your full name.

Note: there is limited street parking and the constitution plaza and financial plaza garages are the closest to the central row meeting rooms.