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Websec Sponsors BSides Vancouver Island 2024
Websec was proud to sponsor BSides Vancouver Island 2024 at the Victoria Conference Centre on September 20, 2024. The event brought practitioners, students, and curious newcomers together for a full day of talks and workshops on threat intelligence, privacy, and the latest tooling in cybersecurity.
Websec Sponsors the Sold-Out AppSec Pacific Northwest Conference 2024
Websec was a proud sponsor of the sold-out AppSec Pacific Northwest Conference 2024 on June 14 and 15, 2024. Presented by the OWASP chapters of Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland, the conference brought the regional AppSec community together for two days of talks and workshops.
Websec Sponsors the 8th Annual Oddfellows Disc Golf Tournament
Websec was proud to sponsor the 8th Annual Oddfellows Charity Disc Golf Tournament on June 8, 2024. Seven years of the event have raised over $128,000 for the Vancouver Island Crisis Society and more than $27,000 for Mary's Farm and Sanctuary, and all proceeds from 2024 continued that tradition.
Websec Proud to Sponsor BSides Vancouver 2024
Websec was proud to sponsor the 11th Annual BSides Vancouver Conference on May 26 and 27, 2024. The event brought the local InfoSec community together for two days of talks, workshops, and networking centred on the latest research and practical techniques in the field.
Websec Sponsors the BCLA IT Pre-Conference 2024
Websec was proud to sponsor the private BCLA IT Pre-Conference on April 23, 2024, a day of presentations and breakout discussions on AI, security, identity management, ransomware recovery, and the operational challenges facing library IT teams across the province.
Websec at OWASP Victoria: From Basics to Burp Part 2 Workshop
Websec's Wyatt Harvey and Sebastian Bethell returned to the University of Victoria on March 28, 2024 to deliver From Basics to Burp Part 2, a hands-on workshop covering PortSwigger's Web Security Academy and practical Burp Suite testing, in partnership with OWASP Victoria and UVic VikeSec.
Websec Experts Speak at the ISACA Victoria 2024 InfoSec Student Conference
Roberto Salgado and Matt Price joined the ISACA Victoria InfoSec Student Conference at UVic on March 14, 2024 to talk to students and young professionals about building a career in cybersecurity, the discipline of continuous learning, and what the industry actually looks like behind the job titles.
Websec at OWASP Victoria: From Basics to Burp Workshop (Part 1)
Websec's Wyatt Harvey and Sebastian Bethell led the first From Basics to Burp workshop at VIATEC in Victoria on November 16, 2023, introducing PortSwigger's Web Security Academy and hands-on Burp Suite labs to attendees from the OWASP Victoria chapter.
Websec: Proud Sponsor of BSides Vancouver Island 2023
Websec is a proud sponsor of BSides Vancouver Island 2023, a grassroots cybersecurity conference happening October 13 at the Vic Theatre in Victoria, BC, bringing together hackers, researchers, students, and industry for a day of talks and networking.