SECURITYCON is a free virtual event for the entire campus community.
When: Friday October 9, 2020
Where: This year’s event will be virtual! Registration is available at https://go.unc.edu/securitycon
Cost: Nothing – it’s free!
Students, faculty, and staff interested in all things information security will have an opportunity to observe tech demos, participate in interactive hacking contests, pick the brains of information security professionals and more. You can view all of the days activities at https://securitycon.unc.edu.
Attendees should feel free to drop-in for any amount of time throughout the day. In addition to prizes for winners of competitions, there will be giveaways via campus mail.
SecurityCon is also the home of the annual National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) keynote address. This year’s will be delivered by Lucy Kerner of Red Hat.
Lucy is currently the Senior Principal Global Cybersecurity Evangelist and Strategist at Red Hat and leads security thought leadership, evangelism, and the technical and go-to-market strategy for security across the entire Red Hat portfolio globally. In addition, she helps create and deliver security related technical content to the field, customers, partners, analysts, and press and has spoken at numerous events, including security conferences, such as RSA and Hack3rCon/SecureWV, and is a Red Hat Summit Top Presenter. Lucy is also a frequent author of security articles at various online magazines , such as TechBeacon and Increment Magazine. Prior to her current role, she was a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect for the North America Public Sector team at Red Hat where she presented and designed cloud solutions for a wide range of North America public sector customers. Lucy has over 17 years of professional experience as both a software and hardware development engineer and a pre-sales solutions architect, where she worked on various aspects of cybersecurity. Prior to joining Red Hat, she worked at IBM as both a Mainframe microprocessor design engineer and a pre-sales solutions architect for IBM x86 servers. She has also interned at Apple, Cadence, Lockheed Martin, and MITRE, where she worked on both software and hardware development. Lucy graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with an M.S. and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a minor in Spanish.