OWASP LA Monthly Dinner Meeting - March 27, 2019

Topic: Metasploit 101 Class

Speaker: Jose Hernandez, Evolve Security (evolvesecurity.io)

Biography:
Jose Hernandez is a Threat Intelligence Analyst at NTT Security, where he analyzes global information security trends to help clients understand and defend their environments. With over 10 years of experience in the information security field Jose is passionate about information security. He organizes the monthly EvolveSec LA Meetup and speaks in security conferences. Jose helps the industry by sharing knowledge and helping professionals grow their skillsets. Jose also enjoys stand up comedy and is a comedian in Los Angeles.

Back to Basics: Metasploit
The Metasploit Framework is an essential tool for all professionals in the information security field. Metasploit is a tool that helps in the exploitation of security vulnerabilities during penetration testing assessments. Metasploit is an open source project with a very active community of developers that actively expand the capabilities of the framework. The presentation will describe a history of the Metasploit Framework and how it is used today by security professionals. I will teach you how to navigate Metasploit and together we can explore some of the more interesting capabilities of this tool.