Training at Kiwicon has a twist; there's training classes available on Tuesday 15th and Wednesday the 16th; half the spots are paid, half are free. Some classes are mixed paid/free, some run one instance of paid and one of free. Paid places are straightforward; just buy what you want. Free ones are allocated on a "most-benefit" basis; you'll provide some reasons why you might want to go on the application form.
Why would you pay for something that you can get for free? Well, consider the abridged Kiwicon Code Of Conduct:
"Don't be a shitweasel"
If you work in the industry, or your work is paying for you to be at the Con, or if you have some other kind of fat cash paying gig, then we think it'd be swell of you to pay your way, and leave the free classes for those who can't afford it. In particular, we'll give priority to those with student tickets or jobs outside the relatively-well paid IT sector. If you try and sign up for the free classes from your fancy-pants dr.contractor.mr.the.plague.sir@fatcash.govt.nz, you're a jerk.
Kiwicon's about sharing the knowledge, so by paying your way, you're helping those who cant yet afford to.
Quick List
Details
| Title | Defensive DevOps (Free) |
| Abstract | Training Details
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| Location | Tue 15 0900 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 360 mins |
| Name | aurynn |
| Origin | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Bio | aurynn is the founder of Eiara DevOps, a firm out of Wellington focused on helping others integrate DevOps practices into their development workflows. Her goal is to help you bring DevOps tooling into your team safely, securely, and sustainability.
She cares a lot about how to deploy things so they will stop catching fire. |
| Title | OSINT for Everyone (Free) |
| Abstract | Training Details |
| Location | Tue 15 0900 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 480 mins |
| Name | Simon Howard & David Robinson |
| Origin | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Bio | Simon runs ZX Security, an infosec consultancy located in down-town Wellington. Simon and his team provide penetration testing and training services to customers across a variety of public and private industry sectors.
Dave is penetration tester at ZX Security and is a fan of breaking all things wireless |
| Title | Rev.eng.e (Free Morning) |
| Abstract | Training Details |
| Location | Tue 15 0900 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 240 mins |
| Name | Karl Barrett |
| Origin | Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Bio | Karl is a security consultant for Lateral Security in Christchurch, New Zealand. His areas of interest include hardware hacking and advanced XSS techniques. In his spare time, Karl enjoys climbing rocks and popping locks. |
| Title | Rails Derailed (Free) |
| Abstract | Training Details |
| Location | Tue 15 0900 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 480 mins |
| Name | pruby |
| Origin | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Bio | Since pruby's last Kiwicon appearance, he's travelled the world on a mystical journey, looking for the answers, or at least a bed and a meal. From pine-needle floored churches in southern Mexico, where they sacrifice chickens and bottles of Coca-cola with equal solemnity, via the holy city of Varanasi in India, where it was 46°C outside, to Tibetan temples in Dharamsala where they mechanise prayers, he slowly came to the realisation that to get what you want (or even aircon) takes cold hard cash.
As a result, he's now a paid-up security consultant with a team best described as OU=Aura,O=Kordia,L=Wellington,L=NZ , getting said cash while doing what he'd actually want to anyway. |
| Title | OSINT for Everyone (Paid) |
| Abstract | Training Details |
| Location | Tue 15 0900 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 480 mins |
| Name | Simon Howard & David Robinson |
| Origin | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Bio | Simon runs ZX Security, an infosec consultancy located in down-town Wellington. Simon and his team provide penetration testing and training services to customers across a variety of public and private industry sectors.
Dave is penetration tester at ZX Security and is a fan of breaking all things wireless |
| Title | Rev.eng.e (Free Afternoon) |
| Abstract | Training Details |
| Location | Tue 15 1330 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 240 mins |
| Name | Karl Barrett |
| Origin | Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Bio | Karl is a security consultant for Lateral Security in Christchurch, New Zealand. His areas of interest include hardware hacking and advanced XSS techniques. In his spare time, Karl enjoys climbing rocks and popping locks. |
| Title | Defensive DevOps (Paid) |
| Abstract | Training Details
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| Location | Wed 16 0900 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 360 mins |
| Name | aurynn |
| Origin | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Bio | aurynn is the founder of Eiara DevOps, a firm out of Wellington focused on helping others integrate DevOps practices into their development workflows. Her goal is to help you bring DevOps tooling into your team safely, securely, and sustainability.
She cares a lot about how to deploy things so they will stop catching fire. |
| Title | Lockpicking 101 (Paid) |
| Abstract | Training Details |
| Location | Wed 16 0900 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 240 mins |
| Name | Derek Robson (D.Roc) & Chris Harrison |
| Origin | The Lowest Hutt, NZ |
| Bio | Sometimes I am called Derek, sometimes I am called D.Roc, when ordering fast-food I am called Dave (don't ask)
I have been known to pick locks.
I am the creator of the badge puzzle for the last two years.
I am known to have options on things, and often voice my options.
Chris is an old and grizzled UNIX engineer, Chris has spent his time working in
banks, telcos, academia, .govt, and boutique design agencies. He enjoys
gardening, voiding warranties and taking long moonlit walks off short piers. |
| Title | Prose and Cons (Paid) |
| Abstract | Training Details
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| Location | Wed 16 0900 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 240 mins |
| Name | Cyni Winegard & Bethany Ward |
| Origin | Baton Rouge, USA |
| Bio | Cyni Winegard is currently an Information Security Analyst with TraceSecurity. Starting her career as a Systems Administrator, she has moved into the information security industry and fallen in love with it. In her role at TraceSecurity, she performs penetration testing, security assessments, audits, and social engineering engagements. Cyni has a B.S. in History and Anthropology from Florida A&M University, a Master of Justice Studies in Cybersecurity, and a Graduate Certificate in Terrorism and Homeland Security. She is working on a Master of Digital Forensics from the University of Central Florida. She enjoys applying anthropological concepts to social engineering, and is passionate about compromising users. If not lost in cyberspace, Cyni can most likely be found practicing krav maga or playing video games.
Bethany Ward is an Information Security Analyst with TraceSecurity, LLC. In this role she performs pentests, security assessments, IT audits, and social engineering engagements. She has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas. In addition to her technical skills, Bethany is an avid lover of writing, acting, and psychology, and enjoys applying her liberal arts skills to her technical pursuits. Bethany has spoken on social engineering at multiple conferences, including HackMiami and DEF CON. When not being fascinated by security, Bethany enjoys antiquing and playing video games. |
| Title | Holistic Info-Sec for Web Developers - Intense (Paid) |
| Abstract | Training Details |
| Location | Wed 16 0900 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 240 mins |
| Name | Kim Carter |
| Origin | Holistic Info-Sec for Web Developers - Intense |
| Bio | Technologist / Engineer, Information Security Professional, Entrepreneur and the founder of BinaryMist Ltd (https://binarymist.io/), OWASP NZ Chapter Leader. Certified Scrum Master. Facilitator, mentor and motivator of cross functional, self managing teams. With a solid 15 years of commercial industry experience across many domains, Kim Carter enjoys teaching others how to apply information security to their Agile processes, bringing the security focus up front where it's the cheapest to implement, increasing profit and reducing costs. Organiser of two information security conferences, International trainer, speaker and published author focusing on
* Software and network architecture
* Web development and engineering
* Information security
Kim is also a regular blog poster at http://blog.binarymist.net. Kim loves designing and creating robust software and networks, breaking software and networks, then fixing them and helping organisations increase productivity.
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| Title | Security on a shoestring (Paid) |
| Abstract | Training Details
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| Location | Wed 16 0900 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 450 mins |
| Name | Laura Bell |
| Origin | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Bio | Laura Bell makes pretty slides and talks a lot.
You may remember her from such talks as 'Eradicating the Human Problem' and those times she went overseas to BlackHat, BlueHat and some other places with better naming conventions. She is an author for O'Reilly (the people with the animal books) and trains people anywhere they stay still long enough.
She founded the most chaotic security company in New Zealand, SafeStack (http://safestack.io) and now tries to bring security to some of the fasted moving application development environments on Earth. Sometimes she even succeeds.
You can find her on the twitters as @lady_nerd or at home in Auckland with her husband and daughter. |
| Title | Security on a shoestring (Free) |
| Abstract | Training Details
|
| Location | Wed 16 0900 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 450 mins |
| Name | Laura Bell |
| Origin | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Bio | Laura Bell makes pretty slides and talks a lot.
You may remember her from such talks as 'Eradicating the Human Problem' and those times she went overseas to BlackHat, BlueHat and some other places with better naming conventions. She is an author for O'Reilly (the people with the animal books) and trains people anywhere they stay still long enough.
She founded the most chaotic security company in New Zealand, SafeStack (http://safestack.io) and now tries to bring security to some of the fasted moving application development environments on Earth. Sometimes she even succeeds.
You can find her on the twitters as @lady_nerd or at home in Auckland with her husband and daughter. |
| Title | Rails Derailed (Paid) |
| Abstract | Training Details |
| Location | Wed 16 0900 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 480 mins |
| Name | pruby |
| Origin | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Bio | Since pruby's last Kiwicon appearance, he's travelled the world on a mystical journey, looking for the answers, or at least a bed and a meal. From pine-needle floored churches in southern Mexico, where they sacrifice chickens and bottles of Coca-cola with equal solemnity, via the holy city of Varanasi in India, where it was 46°C outside, to Tibetan temples in Dharamsala where they mechanise prayers, he slowly came to the realisation that to get what you want (or even aircon) takes cold hard cash.
As a result, he's now a paid-up security consultant with a team best described as OU=Aura,O=Kordia,L=Wellington,L=NZ , getting said cash while doing what he'd actually want to anyway. |
| Title | Holistic Info-Sec for Web Developers - Intense (Free) |
| Abstract | Training Details |
| Location | Wed 16 1330 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 240 mins |
| Name | Kim Carter |
| Origin | Holistic Info-Sec for Web Developers - Intense |
| Bio | Technologist / Engineer, Information Security Professional, Entrepreneur and the founder of BinaryMist Ltd (https://binarymist.io/), OWASP NZ Chapter Leader. Certified Scrum Master. Facilitator, mentor and motivator of cross functional, self managing teams. With a solid 15 years of commercial industry experience across many domains, Kim Carter enjoys teaching others how to apply information security to their Agile processes, bringing the security focus up front where it's the cheapest to implement, increasing profit and reducing costs. Organiser of two information security conferences, International trainer, speaker and published author focusing on
* Software and network architecture
* Web development and engineering
* Information security
Kim is also a regular blog poster at http://blog.binarymist.net. Kim loves designing and creating robust software and networks, breaking software and networks, then fixing them and helping organisations increase productivity.
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| Title | Prose and Cons (Free) |
| Abstract | Training Details |
| Location | Wed 16 1330 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 240 mins |
| Name | Cyni Winegard & Bethany Ward |
| Origin | Baton Rouge, USA |
| Bio | Cyni Winegard is currently an Information Security Analyst with TraceSecurity. Starting her career as a Systems Administrator, she has moved into the information security industry and fallen in love with it. In her role at TraceSecurity, she performs penetration testing, security assessments, audits, and social engineering engagements. Cyni has a B.S. in History and Anthropology from Florida A&M University, a Master of Justice Studies in Cybersecurity, and a Graduate Certificate in Terrorism and Homeland Security. She is working on a Master of Digital Forensics from the University of Central Florida. She enjoys applying anthropological concepts to social engineering, and is passionate about compromising users. If not lost in cyberspace, Cyni can most likely be found practicing krav maga or playing video games.
Bethany Ward is an Information Security Analyst with TraceSecurity, LLC. In this role she performs pentests, security assessments, IT audits, and social engineering engagements. She has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas. In addition to her technical skills, Bethany is an avid lover of writing, acting, and psychology, and enjoys applying her liberal arts skills to her technical pursuits. Bethany has spoken on social engineering at multiple conferences, including HackMiami and DEF CON. When not being fascinated by security, Bethany enjoys antiquing and playing video games. |
| Title | Lockpicking 101 (Free) |
| Abstract | Training Details |
| Location | Wed 16 1330 @ Auldhouse |
| Duration | 240 mins |
| Name | Derek Robson (D.Roc) & Chris Harrison |
| Origin | The Lowest Hutt, NZ |
| Bio | Sometimes I am called Derek, sometimes I am called D.Roc, when ordering fast-food I am called Dave (don't ask)
I have been known to pick locks.
I am the creator of the badge puzzle for the last two years.
I am known to have options on things, and often voice my options.
Chris is an old and grizzled UNIX engineer, Chris has spent his time working in
banks, telcos, academia, .govt, and boutique design agencies. He enjoys
gardening, voiding warranties and taking long moonlit walks off short piers. |