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SecTor 2022
Boasting a lineup of industry experts including Mohammed Waqas, Paula Januszkiewicz, Tim Dafoe, Rohan Aggarwal, Danny Pehar and Seth Hardy, see the full list of first-round speakers, including our very own Olivier Bilodeau and Lisandro Ubiedo now at sector.ca/speakers.
SecTor 2022 will be a live, in-person event taking place in the South Building of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC) on October 5 and 6. Complete your conference experience by adding the Cloud Security Summit (October 4) or a Black Hat Trainings at SecTor course from October 1-4, 2022.
Come Join Us
As a proud partner of SecTor 2022, Canada’s IT Security Conference, we’re excited to offer you $100 off a Full Conference or FREE Expo Pass to this year’s event when you book with our discount code GoSecure2022.
GoSecure Sessions
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Into the Abyss: Cybersecurity Tool Selection, Rationalization, and Decommissioning
The practice of information security is maturing rapidly. This transition to more scientific approaches to prioritizing security investments is becoming the standard to justify value. Security practitioners must embrace these mature approaches to strategic defense planning and resource allocation. This presentation will discuss ways to make the best choices to maximize defense coverage with appropriate resource allocation.
Date: October 6, 2022
Time: 12:10pm – 12:40pm
Complete details here.
Jeff Schmidt
CTO at GoSecure
Mr. Schmidt is a 25-year veteran of the information security industry. With a unique blend of technical expertise and business savvy, he has consistently shown results architecting and delivering security and risk management solutions for a full range of government and private sector firms. Previously, Mr. Schmidt was a Vice President of Covail where he led the cybersecurity business (Covail was acquired by GoSecure). Prior to Covail, Mr. Schmidt founded Authis (acquired by Richemont), served as the Vice President of Product Management for ENDFORCE (acquired by Sophos), and directed the technology planning, budgeting, implementation, and operations for a $65M department at The Ohio State University. He also spent time at The Microsoft Corporation where he spearheaded Microsoft’s first internal malicious testing of Windows 2000. Mr. Schmidt served on the Board of Directors of Delta Risk, A Chertoff Group Company, until its acquisition by Motorola Solutions. Mr. Schmidt received a BS and MBA from The Ohio State University and currently serves on the Board of Directors of DataPulse LLC.
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Purple RDP: Red and Blue Tradecraft Around Remote Desktop Protocol
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is the de facto standard for remoting in Windows environments. It grew in popularity over the last couple of years due to the pandemic. In addition to system administrators, many remote workers are now relying on it to perform duties on remote systems. RDP is secure when well deployed but, unfortunately, that’s rarely the case and thus clicking through warnings is common. We have spent the last 3 years working on and reimplementing parts of RDP in PyRDP, our open-source RDP library. This presentation is about what we have learned and can be applied to attack and defend against RDP attacks.
Date: October 6, 2022
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Complete details here.
Olivier Bilodeau
Cybersecurity Research Director
Olivier Bilodeau is leading the Cybersecurity Research team at GoSecure. With more than 12 years of infosec experience, Olivier runs honeypots, reverse-engineers binaries, and develops malware analysis tools. He authored several important AV industry reports like Dissecting Linux/Moose, Operation Windigo (about the Ebury malware) and Ego-Market: When Greed for Fame Benefits Large-Scale Botnets. Passionate communicator, Olivier has spoken at several conferences like RSAC USA, BlackHat USA/Europe, DefCon, 44CON, NorthSec, Botconf, SecTor, Derbycon, AtlSecCon and more. Invested in his community, he co-organizes MontréHack — a monthly workshop focused on applied information security — and he is NorthSec’s Vice-President and runs its Hacker Jeopardy.
