Community partners for Nullcon 2016
Glad to announce infosecgirls are community partners for Nullcon 2016. For more details about the conference and registration visit : Nullcon See you all at Nullcon!!
Winja – 2016
Winja is back again!! Winja focuses on bringing women in tech ahead and to help them explore their potential in a comfortable environment and to geek out without feeling intimidated. Winja – CTF is a complete “challenge based” set of simulated hacking challenges relating to “Web Security”, separated into small tasks that can be solved individually by the women attendees, who will attempt to attack and defend the computers and networks using certain tools and network
Registration for Infosecgirls January meet-up
Infosecgirls meet-up will be held on 23rd Jan 2016. AGENDA: Testing with Burp suite. Take away from the session: Getting familiar with the burp features. Get a better understanding to perform testing using Burp Suite Download link : https://portswigger.net/burp/download.html Note: This is a hands-on session, therefore it will be a invite based session. The registrations are open for 40 women participants only and will be first come first serve basis. So hurry up and register today!
Registration details of infosecgirls meet-up on Nov 28th 2015
If you are a woman who is passionate about information security then this event is for you! Note: The registrations are open for 40 women participants only and will be first come first serve basis. So hurry up and register today! Don’t forget to share this with other women in your organisation/schools. You can get in touch @infosecgirls Registration link for the event : http://goo.gl/forms/BzN66umlfl
Women In AppSec Panel Discussion
InfosecGirls were invited to AppSecUSA 2015 for a panel discussion on “Encouraging diversity and advancing cybersecurity education”. The panel discussion was at 3:30 pm PDT. It was a panel of 3 with Infosecgirls co-founders Apoorva, Shruthi and Elissa Shevinsky, CEO & CoFounder at JeKuDo Privacy Company. The event was moderated by Astha Singhal. The moderator asked the Infosecgirls about the initiative . Below are the questions asked at the discussion and the answers by us :
Infosec Girls at AppsecUSA 2015
Infosec Girls will be present at AppsecUSA at the panel discussion to discuss about “Encouraging diversity and advancing cybersecurity education” on Thursday September 24, 2015 3:30pm – 5:00pm PST. Description of the event : Even in male-dominated STEM fields, computer science and security careers stand out for having so few women. Join the panelists, the founders of InfoSec Girls, to discuss how they are advancing cybersecurity education in India while also encouraging women and girls to consider careers in the field.
Infosec Girls featured on YourStory.com
YourStory has covered the efforts of InfosecGirls in spreading security awareness amongst the women in the industry. To view the interview article please refer the links: Apoorva’s Story –http://goo.gl/iN8zTC Shruthi’s Story –http://goo.gl/jiRJ4x
Winja CTF for Women at NULLCON 2015
NULLCON is an international security conference which is a four day event comprising of talks, workshops, training, exhibition, cyber security challenges, recruiting opportunities and business/recreational networking. It is one of the largest international security events in the Asian subcontinent in terms of the new content and participation. NULLCON 2015 was held at Bogmallo resort of the beautiful state of Goa. More information on NULLCON can be found on it’s official website [http://nullcon.
Red Hat India - Women’s Day Celebrations
The InfoSec Girls were invited to give a talk on Women in Technology on the account of International Women’s Day at Red Hat India Bengaluru office. We had close 20-30 people attending the talk from different departments of Red Hat. Our agenda for the talk was Women in Tech and InfoSec, Cyber crimes faced by women and Career in InfoSec .We talked about Women in Technology and InfoSec and what holds women back and issues faced by them.
The Information Security Workshop at HasGeek House, Bangalore
The InfoSec girls organized a one-day workshop on 17th Jan 2015 on Information Security workshop at the HasGeek house. As it was part of the initiative it was all women event held in association with HasGeek. The event had close to 20-25 attendees with mixed crowd of students, developers, network admins & security analysts. The workshop covered basics of Network and Web Application Security, which included topics like Nmap, Metasploit and Owasp Top 10.