Hey all! It's been a minute, to say the least. As I took on a new role as a Cloud security engineer during the pandemic, was such a blessing to have this opportunity!!!
Ok....ok...ok. Enough of me
I like to start by bridging the stop gaps between software developers/software engineers and cybersecurity practitioners. Believe in living in a world where teams, departments, groups, and divisions can all co-exist.
This is what Blue Team Conference in Chicago, IL is all about. What happens weeks before Blue Team Conference?? Well, there's a hacker summer camp in Las Vegas, both DefCon and BlackHat conventions. Defcon is going on 30+ years in the making. Wow!! and I haven't may a trip to one yet (looking to next year possible) Defcon is for the techy geek.
Blackhat has been around for the same amount of time but mainly for a businesses. If you want more information listen to the podcast CISO tradecraft as G Mark Hardy is a well-known individual and shares his experience.
BlueTeam Conference was hosted about a year ago and the community is great. I attended last week's BTC, the community was friendly. (Side note: this is my first security conference) Vendors were well knowledgeable than your usual sale representative, I mean wow these guys at Trimarc and SentinelOne, knew the company inside and out.
Now I wasn't able to make all the speakers but the lineup was great, anywhere from becoming the threat to how to make a CTF. The combination of the speaker lineup was a mix of business solutions consists of team leadership and developing a relationship, collaborating with other teams, and helping them to solve their day-to-day problems, how to hack the board, to cybersec optimizing best practices with working with metrics, logging, auditing, threat response, cloud security best practices, how to abstract cybersec metrics to convey those security measures to leadership and board members.
So what have I learned from attending Blue Team Conference (BTC). Well for starters, Trimarc had hosted their CTF and BTC also had a CTF village. There's hack4kids village where kids of all ages can learn hardware hacking to software hacking. Also, for parents, there's optional daycare for kids too.
Amazing talks about how to convey alerts, metrics, and the decrease of vulnerabilities, reporting graphs to directors, leaderships. Collab with other team members and building a working relationship and giving them a helping hand which gives you a view of their world. Building security fortress by implementing a security zero trust model with security best practices.
Most importantly is about networking and meeting new people. By striking up a conversation I meet some awesome people and I'm looking forward to next year and the continuation of BTC!!!
You can head here to BTC schedule
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