IOActive Summer Fiesta | Sept. 17 | Madrid Hardware Lab
Chill out with good food and great company at the IOActive Summer Fiesta—perfect way to kick back and connect! Join IOActive for our Summer Fiesta taking place Thursday, September 17, at our Madrid Hardware Lab, Calle Gobelas, 25-27, La Florida Local P. 1ª planta, Módulo B, 28023, Madrid, Spain (Puerta Izquierda). Enjoy delicious food and check out some amazing cybersecurity research. WHEN: Thursday, September 17, 11am – 4pm WHERE: Calle Gobelas, 25-27, La Florida Local P. 1ª planta, Módulo B, 28023, Madrid, Spain (Puerta Izquierda) The Madrid lab…
OWASP Scotland Chapter Meeting | Sept. 17 | Colin Cassidy | ACME Windpharm | Edinburgh, Scotland
IOActive Principal Security Consultant Colin Cassidy is speaking at the OWASP Scotland Chapter’s Autumn Session in Edinburgh on Thursday, September 17, 6:00–8:00 PM BST at Hays, 2 Lochrin Square. His talk, “ACME Windpharm,” draws on real-world security assessments of wind farms and other ICS/OT environments to challenge assumptions about what actually matters in industrial cyber-physical attacks. Colin will cover: How physical and remote access to windfarm systems can be gained, and the pattern of over-reliance on “security boxes” masking gaps in basic security hygiene Why cutting…
CornCon 2026 | Oct. 1 – 3 | Megan Holliday | What the Hack is AWS?: A Beginner’s Guide to AWS Penetration Testing | Davenport, IA
Catch IOActive Security Consultant Megan Holliday at this year’s CornCon, October 1–3 in Davenport, IA, where she’ll be presenting on AWS penetration testing. Full abstract and event details below. ABSTRACT: This talk provides a practical introduction to penetration testing AWS environments, aimed at security professionals who are new to the cloud. We address questions such as where to start, what to look for, and how to approach AWS from an attacker’s perspective. We break down the difference between an AWS penetration test…
LASCON | Oct 29 – 30 | Austin, TX | Jason Kent | SONAR Tech for your apps
Jason Kent, Business Development Manager at IOActive, will speak at LASCON 2026, taking place October 29–30 in Austin, TX. Jason’s talk, “SONAR Tech for Your Apps,” explores the unique threat landscape of AI-powered systems — stress-testing real applications to uncover LLM vulnerabilities from first principles. Session Abstract: Jason Kent is an application security (AppSec) leader with 25+ years of experience building, selling, and securing applications at scale. He has architected AppSec products, led enterprise security initiatives, and currently drives security solutions strategy. Drawing on his background as a submarine…