OWASP Newcastle June 2024

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

Location: Precursor Security (at the old Newcastle Building Society office)

Rough schedule:

1800 - 1815 Arrival and networking
1815 - 1830 OWASP Newcastle Welcome
1830 - 1915 Talk one
1915 - 2000 Pizza and networking
2000 - 2045 Talk two
2045 - onwards Pub?

Talk overviews:

Talk one
Title: Supercharging Enterprise DFIR - 'Forensics as Code', AI, Automation and Cloud.
Speaker: Michael L
Speaker Bio: Currently the Director of SOC/DFIR for Precursor Security, experienced working in different SOC teams across public sector, financial services and managed services. I've lead DFIR engagements for a varied client base across EMEA.
Talk Synopsis: This talk will introduce the latest techniques to supercharge your response to threat actors at enterprise scale. We will cover techniques I've employed to combat Lockbit, Akira and other TA's in challenging and diverse environments, focusing on new trends shaking up the DFIR corner such as performing forensics investigations 'as code', harnessing AI for DFIR and utilising Azure for automation and almost limitless scale.

Talk two
Title: Utilizing PowerBI for DFIR and incident investigation.
Speaker: Venkatraman Krishnamoorthy
Speaker Bio: Working as SOC manager for Sage . I have lead critical investigations, detection engineering efforts, Security automation.
Providing free cyber security Mentoring for economically modest students.
Talk Synopsis: Leveraging Power BI for Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR): Enhancing Data Analysis and Visualization

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.