OWASP Newcastle March 2024

We're back with our first event of 2024! We’ll be doing our usual two talks and pizza format.

Location: Spence Watson Lecture Theatre 2.98, 2nd Floor Armstrong Building, Newcastle University

Rough schedule:

1800 - 1815 Arrival and networking
1815 - 1820 OWASP Newcastle Welcome
1820 - 1830 CyberNorth Innovation Centre - Andrew Pounder
1830 - 1915 Talk one
1915 - 2000 Pizza and networking
2000 - 2045 Talk two
2045 - onwards Pub?

Talk overviews:

CyberNorth Innovation Centre - The Cyber Security Innovation Centre is an accelerator programme brought to the North East by CyberNorth through funding from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
https://cybernorth.biz/2024/03/06/cyber-security-innovation-centre/

Talk one
Title: Subdomain Hijacking & The CISO Simulator
Speaker: Simon Gurney
Speaker Bio: Simon is one of the Punk Security Co-Founders and has over 15 years experience working within IT, primarily focused on automation and InfoSec.
Simon has a wealth of experience and approaches DevOps from an infrastructure background, but is a keen Python and .NET CORE developer. He has authored two open source projects, pwnSpoof and SMBeagle.
Talk Synopsis: 1. Subdomain hijacking (great for infosec, devs and devops pros)
> what is it?
> why was it in the news recently?
> how do you prevent it?
> a sneak peak at some new additions to dnsReaper, the tool we built at Punk Security Limited to squash this issue for free!

2. The CISO simulator (great for everybody)
> off the back of an ace call with Klaus Agnoletti, I'm hoping to play the CISO simulator game with everyone at the meet. Come join the chaos and learn how to thwart cyber attacks against web applications (hopefully)

Talk two
Title: First 90 days of a CISO, tens of vCISO engagements later.
Speaker: Dr Zibby Kwecka
Speaker Bio: Author and presenter on cyber security topics, holding a PhD in Applied Cryptography and Privacy with seventeen years of experience protecting organisations of all sizes and shapes from digital threats.

As always, tickets aren’t required but help us gauge how much food to order.

Live Stream Info: We're hoping to be able to live stream the event on our playeur channel if not, the talks will be recorded and uploaded there.