Drones are the hot sh*t these days! Yeah, you can go and buy one from Amazon or your local hobby shop, but don’t you think building one would be much more fun? This is where the Quadcopter of Doom workshop comes into play.

In this event, you will learn about how multirotors work, what components they are made of, the construction process, and ultimately, some flight time!

This workshop includes:

• 250 Quad Frame
• 1900Kv Motors (And Props)
• 12A SimonK ESCs (Voltage Regulators)
• KK2.1.5 Flight Controller (Brain)
• 5CH Radio Transmitter (Remote)
• LiPo Battery and Charger
• All other tools and equipment needed

Workshop registration is required.

Bio

Jonathan is one of the primary organizers of BSides Orlando, Co-lead of OWASP Orlando, Co-founder of Hack@UCF, Co-founder of CitrusSec, and all around nerd. Be sure to say hello to him around the conference.

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“Brainstorming Your Brand” will focus on helping IT and Security professionals understand all of the aspects of their personal brand and find creative ways to develop and enhance their brands. This is a hands-on workshop, where you will participate in brainstorming for brands of your peers in the group and walk away with actionable ideas and a Mind Map of your brand.

Goal: Learn about the anatomy and evolution of branding and walk away with a Mind Map for your personal or business brand and the start of a plan for creating, developing, enhancing (remodeling) and promoting your brand.

Agenda:

• Introductions (Facilitator (Christa Pusateri, Wisegate & President of Hook Marketing & Design) and Participants) and overview of the workshop – 10 Min
• Brand Identity, Assets & Collateral -15 Min
• Brainstorming Ideas, Resources and Mind Maps -15 Min
• Break- 10 Min
• Creative Group Collaboration – Take 10 minutes per member to brainstorm the brand (40-50 Minutes)
• Promoting Your Brand – High Level Overview of Marketing, PR and Social Media Basics (10 Minutes)
• Wrap Up & Your Next Steps (Homework) – 10 min

Workshop registration is required.

Bio

Christa Pusateri is a trusted advisor to IT and InfoSec leaders and marketing professional with over 10 years of marketing, sales, and branding experience. As Director of Member Recruitment at WisegateIT.com, she helps IT, InfoSec and Risk leaders connect with expert peers to solve problems, save time, save money and promote their expertise. She is a creative problem solver, entrepreneur, student, coach, geek, and devoted wife and mother.

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In this workshop, students will learn basics of data science as they apply to analyzing common security-related data. Prediction, anomaly detection, interaction graph analysis and clustering will be demonstrated as tools for incident response, forensics and planning. This workshop makes no assumptions about the data science experience, or math background of attendees, nor does it attempt to be a general data science course. Instead, this course focuses on practical, applied techniques and methods which may be used by any security practitioner to better understand their environment, regardless of scale.

Workshop registration is required.

Bio

Rob leads Big Data platform architecture for Akamai, building compute, storage, and transport systems processing over an exabyte a year. He is the Chair of the Akamai Center of Excellence in Machine Learning, founder of the BSides Ground Truth track, and author of the Blarpy anomaly detection tool. Additionally, he brings academics to reality as co-editor of the Journal of Big Data. He is also the founder of Red Lambda, and its former CTO.

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This hands-on workshop is a rapid introduction to key artifacts and techniques for investigating compromised Linux systems using Linux tools. We will cover collecting and analyzing disk and memory evidence, showing you where to look and introducing tools every investigator should know.

Workshop registration is required.

Bio

Hal Pomeranz is an independent digital forensic investigator who has consulted on cases ranging from intellectual property theft, to employee sabotage, to organized cybercrime and malicious software infrastructures. He has worked with law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe and global corporations. Hal is a SANS Faculty Fellow, and a respected author and speaker at industry gatherings worldwide.

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