Please join us for another iteration of NCC Group Open Forum in Los Angeles! Generously hosted by the Security team at Tinder, this event will bring together experts and aficionados of all things security-related to meet with their peers and help build ties within the local community. The evening will feature three distinct talks on information security, food and beverages, and great conversation. Please RSVP since spots are limited! Parking information below.

DATE: Thursday, November 9, 2017
TIME: 5:30pm-8:30pm
LOCATION: Tinder Offices
8833 Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, CA

RSVP via https://www.meetup.com/NCC-Group-Open-Forum-Los-Angeles/ if you wish to attend!

technical managers and engineers only please
food and beverage provided, bring valid ID for beer/wine
signing an NDA will be required to enter Tinder's offices
For security purposes, please note that Tinder reserves the right to require guests to submit to a bag check and/ or metal detection screening prior to gaining entrance to our events

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PARKING DIRECTIONS

IAC LOT, 8800 W. Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069

Enter the lot through the entrance on Palm Ave and let the parking attendant know you are here for the Tinder MeetUp. You do not need validation. :) After parking your car, take the elevators up to the ground floor. Exit out of the building to Sunset blvd. Cross the street and walk west on Sunset blvd and Tinder will be on your right hand side. Once you enter the Tinder building (8833 Sunset Blvd.), please see front desk and let them know you are here for the MeetUp at Tinder. After checking in, take the elevators up to the 4th floor.

Parking will be free for the first 60 guests.

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AGENDA

SPEAKER: Jonathan Walker and Nick Soracco / Tinder

PRESO TITLE: Beating your servers into submission

PRESO SUMMARY: Jonathan Walker and Nick Soracco will be speaking on automated vulnerability management.

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SPEAKER: Ryan Schonfeld / RAS Consulting & Investigations

PRESO TITLE: Connecting Physical Security to Your Cyber Plan

PRESO SUMMARY: In this presentation, Ryan will discuss physical security in a digital age and how the two historically separate disciplines have to fit and work together. Ryan will highlight some best practices when it comes to facility construction as well as selection of physical security assets, system monitoring and adding value from your security infrastructure.

SPEAKER BIO: Ryan Schonfeld has over fifteen years of experience in law enforcement and the security industry. After graduating from American University in Washington, DC with a degree in Justice and a minor in Information Systems & Technology, he began working as an officer for the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland. During his training, he saw the increasing relevance of technology as it relates to crime, and simultaneously earned his Masters in Information Systems and Technology from George Washington University.
Ryan now works full time to provide physical security consulting services to clients of RAS and volunteers part time as a Reserve Police Officer. Ryan has served a consultant for the US Dept. of State, teaching Identification and Seizure of Digital Evidence to foreign governments.

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SPEAKER: Nicolas Guigo / Technical Director / NCC Group

PRESO TITLE: UnArxan Me

PRESO SUMMARY: Using symbolic execution and dynamic instrumentation to defeat commercial binary obfuscation.

SPEAKER BIO: Nicolas is a Technical Director with NCC Group. He graduated with a BS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Paris VIII and a MS in Computer Science from NMSU. He is a former Microsoft employee where he worked as a developer, tester and security engineer on the windows kernel and windows phone drivers. He also gave Microsoft-wide security trainings on generic security bug classes, exploitation techniques, exploit mitigation OS features and the windows security model. Nicolas started at NCC Group in 2013 at their Seattle office and has done work with several major software companies. His focus are kernel area with an emphasis on MS Windows and C/C++ general application security. He was part of the TrueCrypt audit effort in 2014, and presented at BlackHat Europe 2014 and Asia 2015 where he gave a talk featuring multiple vulnerabilities in closed-source software.

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About the NCC Group Security Open Forum

The NCC Group Security Open Forum is an informal and open venue for the discussion and presentation of security related research and tools, and an opportunity for security researchers from all fields to get together and share work and ideas.

The Forum meets quarterly in the SoCal Area, Bay Area, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, and Austin. Forum agendas are crafted with the specific needs/interests of its members in mind and consist of brief 20-30 minute talks. Talks are not product pitches or strongly vendor preferential. Attendance is limited to engineers, technical managers, and those interested in the world of information security. Any area of security is welcome including reversing, secure development, new techniques or tools, application security, cryptography, etc.