About us
RVAsec is a community built around cybersecurity based in Richmond, Virginia, but has members far beyond the greater mid-Atlantic region. We bring together professionals, students, and enthusiasts who care about learning, connecting, and growing together—whether you're deep into the industry or just getting started.
Yearly Conference:
RVAsec is Virginia’s premier cybersecurity conference, drawing top speakers, leading vendors, and hundreds of passionate attendees from across the mid-Atlantic.
Held every June in Richmond, the event features:
- High-impact keynotes from industry leaders
- Hands-on activities like Capture the Flag (CTF) and lockpicking village
- A wide range of technical and business-focused talks
- Community-building, networking, and plenty of hallway conversations
📍 The Marriott Richmond
📅 June 9–10, 2026
🔗 https://rvasec.com
Meetups:
Monthly Social: The heartbeat of RVAsec. No talks, no slides—just a relaxed chance to connect in the local security scene over drinks and good conversation. Everyone’s welcome, from seasoned pros to the security-curious. Organized by Jake Kouns and Chris Sullo.
Deep Dives: Topic-focused sessions designed by and for the community: hands-on workshops, lightning talks, roundtables, live demos, and the occasional vendor presentation. Come to learn, share, and sharpen your craft. Organized by Austin McNett.
Security Fundamentals: Beginner-friendly meetups on Saturdays that demystify security roles and concepts, with simple labs, fundamentals, and practical next steps. Ideal for students, career switchers, and IT/general tech folks exploring security. Organized by Will Roe.
RVAsec YouTube Channel:
All videos from our yearly conferences can be found on our YouTube channel.
RVAsec Discord Community:
Join our community and connect on topics that interest you! https://discord.gg/gjD9dhBStN
Upcoming events
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RVAsec SecFun - Intro to Splunk
Tech For Troops, 4840 Waller Rd, Richmond, VA, USGuest Speaker Austin McNett - is a SOC Analyst that works with Splunk on a daily basis.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/austinmcnett/Please join the RVASec Discord for more information: RVAsec Discord
Topic: Please see Discord Server for more information.
Schedule:
9:30am - 9:45am: arrival and general socializing
9:45am - 10:45am: Presentation
10:45am - 11:00am: Self-Introductions
11:00am - 12:30pm: Discussion, practice, and socializeAll times are estimated
26 attendees
RVAsec Deep Dive - September
ECPI University, 11104 W Broad St, Glen Allen, VA, USYou must be registered to attend this event.
As we head into fall, Nick Copi is back for his second RVAsec Deep Dive.
Nick ran our very first Deep Dive, a hands on lab, and he’s returning with another one: Hacking IDE Extensions - VSCode Workshop, a hands on session built around the IDE extension bug bounty work he’s done professionally, work that also landed him a speaking slot at this year’s DEF CON Bug Bounty Village. He spent four years as a Cyber Security Engineer at CarMax working application security and containerization, and now hunts bugs full time.
IDE extensions run with privileged access to your filesystem, shell, and credentials, and increasingly ship AI features that read untrusted workspace files and act on what they find. Nick will walk through a generalized exploitation killchain, then turn everyone loose on Nopilot, a deliberately vulnerable mock AI assistant extension built for this workshop. Attendees will debug it, find real primitives, and chain them into full pretrust code execution.
Bring a laptop with VS Code (or Cursor/VSCodium), Node 20+, and some familiarity with JavaScript. No prior extension dev experience needed.
Location:
• ECPI (11104 W Broad Street)Agenda:
• 6:00 PM – Doors open, socializing & refreshments• 6:30 PM – Threat model crash course and killchain walkthrough
• 6:45 PM – Tooling primer and live debugging demo
• 7:00 PM – Hands-on: pick a primitive, build your own exploit chain
• 8:00 PM – Walkthrough of the full pretrust code execution chain
• 8:30 PM – Wrap up and open conversation
Capacity:
We expect roughly 40 seats. If you sign up, please show up; if something comes up, no problem, but cancel or update ASAP so someone else can take the spot.20 attendeesRVAsec SecFun - TBD
Tech For Troops, 4840 Waller Rd, Richmond, VA, USPlease join the RVASec Discord for more information: RVAsec Discord
Topic: Please see Discord Server for more information.
Schedule:
9:30am - 9:45am: arrival and general socializing
9:45am - 10:45am: Presentation
10:45am - 11:00am: Self-Introductions
11:00am - 12:30pm: Discussion, practice, and socializeAll times are estimated
2 attendees
Past events
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