**Abstract:**
Data breaches are not as random as you might think. Building upon previous work forecasting fraud among business customers, we discovered something often overlooked by practitioners. Insufficient staffing is a strong predictor of data breach, and surprisingly, audit staff is just as effective at preventing a data breach as staff working in information technology.

This session will demonstrate how cybersecurity data breach can be accurately forecast based upon the number of employees overall, and the number of employees with certain certifications that relate to cybersecurity. You will learn how this approach of measuring cybersecurity could help your organization to set risk appetite goals in terms of expected frequency of data breach and to right size the cybersecurity team to meet these goals.

**Bio:**
Dr. Thomas Lee is the CEO of VivoSecurity, a Silicon Valley based company focused on data collection, regression modeling and A.I. to bring predictability to the randomness of data breach. In cybersecurity, Thomas has developed models to forecast fraud in online banking, probability for PII data breach, probability for lawsuits and costs in the event of a PII data breach, and the likelihood of a shareholder lawsuit for public companies in the event of a stock drop. He has developed models to forecast PII data breaches by state and models to forecast the number of data breaches in the healthcare industry. Thomas has been an invited speaker at the Richmond Fed research conference 2018, invited participant at Richmond Fed cyber security workshop 2019, invited speaker at O.R.X Toronto & Milan 2018, speaker at OpRisk North America 2018, ACAMS panelist 2019, PRMIA NYC & BCG 2018, ISACA chapters in Toronto, and Silicon Valley 2022, and Silicon Valley Affiliate of WiSyS 2022; In 2023, Thomas has spoken at ISACA chapters in Silicon Valley, Orange County, Boise, Memphis, Sacramento, Arkansas, and Central Ohio. He was a panelist at ISACA Silicon Valley Digital Trust Summit in 2023. In 2024, Thomas was an invited speaker at a joint session of ISACA and IIA Northwest Ohio. Thomas has multiple patents and publications in peer reviewed journals and holds BS degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, and an MS and PhD in Biophysics from the University of Chicago.

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Robert Kelly

Michelle Mehrayin

2024-04-27 - Forecasting Data Breaches

Hacker Dojo

**NOTE**: Host (GitHub) requires the attendees' full name and email address to pre-register. The host has assured that this data will not be used for marketing or other purposes. Kindly use the below link to register:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hackthebay-with-pacific-hackers-2024-tickets-868874205137

Are you going to be in San Francisco during BSidesSF and RSA? Do you have plans for Monday? If not, we have something prepared for you.

Pacific Hackers is bringing "HackTheBay" for a few hours of awesomeness. Check out our newly created CTF. We are going to have a panel discussion and some talks and workshops.

Space is limited, so sign up before everyone else.

**Agenda**:
**2:00**: Door Opens
**2:30 – 3:00**: Open Remarks + CTF Introduction
**3:00 – 4:00**: Panel Discussion
**4:00 – 6:00**: Talks/Workshops

**The schedule is subject to change**. For more information, visit us at [www.hackthebay.org](http://www.hackthebay.org)

Amit Chahal

Drew

HacktheBay With Pacific Hackers 

GitHub

**Abstract:**
You will hack Wi-Fi. Public-available tools to hack Wi-Fi will be used to teach Wi-Fi hacking skills, but more importantly, defense against these tools will be taught. We might even squeeze in a demo of Wi-Fi 7 security working!

**Bio:**
Phil Morgan has spent a long time working with Wi-Fi: he remembers 802.11b being the new protocol!

Phil has considerable experience in the industry with expertise in routing, switching, collaboration, and security. He is a member of the IEEE, the WBA, and an active member of the IEEE 1932.1 working group. He is CCIE #5224, CWNE #322, and CWISE #4 and possesses over 50 other industry certifications and qualifications.

Phil is the CTO of NetCertExpert, Inc. A California corporation focusing on Networking, Wireless, and Cyber Security. NetCertExpert, Inc., is an industry leader in consulting, training, and development of courseware. Phil’s main focus is on Wi-Fi and cyber security.

Phil has developed multiple courses on Wi-Fi security and hacking.

**Requirements:**
Bring a laptop with Kali Linux installed or in a VM. Please consider buying wireless cards for Penetration Testing; Phil recommends the ones below.

[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00762YNMG?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00762YNMG?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details)

Or if you want to do 5 and 6 GHz as well as 2.4 GHz, these:
[https://www.badgerwifi.co.uk/store/p/cf-951ax](https://www.badgerwifi.co.uk/store/p/cf-951ax) (difficult to get hold of)

[https://en.comfast.com.cn/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=13&id=182](https://en.comfast.com.cn/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=13&id=182)
(You can use CF-951ax, or CF-953ax)

Louie

April

2024-05-18 - Wi-Fi Hacking 2024 Live Labs WORKSHOP

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