Over ons
WICCA is a circle of women in cybersecurity based in the Netherlands with a shared vision: to spread the cyber word to everyone.
https://womenofwicca.nl/
About Us
Our goal is to bring women security enthusiasts together to learn about everything from exploits, hacking, incident response, and forensics to the low-level tech, governance, policy, GRC—you name it! And of course, to make plenty of bad crypto jokes along the way. We’re here to build a strong community of badass women in the Netherlands, and hopefully inspire future generations to grab a keyboard and get the hacking party started!
We meet monthly in Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Rotterdam, and more, sometimes online, sometimes even abroad! Are you a woman working in or curious about cybersecurity? Then by all means, come join us!
WICCA is an entirely volunteer-driven community and all our meetups are free.
Women-Only?
Our meetups are usually women-only, but since we aim to spread knowledge far and wide, we are planning on hosting many mixed events. The main idea is to create a space where everyone feels at ease and truly welcome. We’re building a strong circle of women, but we’re not an exclusive one. WICCA is, at its core, a group of badass security ladies where anyone is welcome to learn from and with us!
Focus
In our group, we focus on the positive impact of the many initiatives working to increase diversity in cybersecurity and the broader tech world. We highlight good work, solid research, and strong efforts that help our community grow and thrive. We don’t let negativity or endless debates drain our energy, we’d rather spend that time building things, learning, and lifting each other up. We goof together, we laugh together, and yes—we hack together!
Support us
Organising WICCA events comes with its share of costs—think Meetup subscription, hosting, emails, and video conferencing tools. Every contribution helps us keep things running smoothly and joyfully.
Our philosophy is simple: WICCA events will always be free. But donations do make a difference. The more support we receive, the more we can do for the community. From better tools to bigger opportunities, it all adds up.
If you’ve enjoyed our events and want to give something back, we’d love your support. Only give what you can comfortably spare. But if you think our meetups are worth a euro or two, a small donation can help us make WICCA even better for everyone.
Support us with a donation via PayPal.
For companies seeking to become sponsors, contact us.
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Do Not Disturb: This Hotel Is Attacking the Internet
·OnlineOnlineA smart hotel’s IoT appliances are compromised, made part of a botnet, and used for a DDoS attack. Your goal? Finding out what happened and how!
For this online event, we have the amazing WICCON 2025 workshop leader Kellamity walking us through an incident-response type investigation. All from the comfort of your browser, using Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and the Kusto Query Language (KQL).
Curious about the blue side of cybersecurity? Enjoying puzzles and detective games? Or needing some exposure to the Kusto Query Language?
Focusing on suspicious network traffic, we will hunt anomalies in the provided dataset on Azure Data Explorer. Using the Kusto Query Language, we will discover who took over the IoT network and how, from reconnaissance to actions on objectives.
Don't forget to take notes! At the end of the session, we will draw up a timeline of events starting from high traffic alert back to the initial compromise.
Worried about KQL being a new language? You can freely play the KQL 101 and 201 modules on the KC7 platform to get the basics. I will also provide the queries during the session, so you'll never get stuck.
Afraid you'll breeze through it? It's ok, I thought about you, and there is a second threat actor to uncover. You'll have to do that on your own and report back to me though ;)
Kellamity
Kellamity is a volunteer Threat Intel Content Lead at KC7. This free platform teaches concepts of incident response and threat hunting in a gamified way to everyone, from school students to career changers.From a literature and languages background, they started playing --quite obsessively-- on KC7 at the beginning of 2024, and after making it quickly to the top of the leaderboard and helping others over on Discord, they were offered to join the team. Which they quickly accepted, because giving back to the community is great, and creating new scenarios is fun!
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