InfoSec Workshop @hasgeek
Venue - HasGeek Date - 17th January 2015 Apoorva Giri and Shruthi Kamath, two Information security enthusiasts conducted a workshop on Web Application Security and Network Security at the HasGeek house recently. It was a woman only event held as an initiative to introduce more women to the InfoSec arena. This event was held in association with HasGeek , at the HasGeek house, Bengaluru. The workshop covered basics of Web App Security and Network Security. The participants worked along with the instructors in the hands-on session alongside Apoorva and Shruthi. Normally the webinars and the talks that I had attended earlier dived right into hacking, ransack a web app and put the network team to shame in public by showcasing the vulnerabilities. The experience at this workshop was refreshingly different. And how? The organizers guided the participants in the following activities: → downloading and installing Kali Linux and metasploitable on Oracle VM VirtualBo...