Thursday, April 14th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

Hello Hackers!

This month we are joined by Nathaniel Engelsen, a Twin Cities technology executive specializing in cloud architecture, DevSecOps, and building security into digital products, who also happens to be Director of Global DevOps for Canon Medical. He will be presenting on Zero Trust:

Keeping technology secure is just too damn hard. Nation-states, persistent threat actors, script kiddies armed with NSA exploits – the threat landscape is saturated with threats. Enter “Zero Trust Security” – the worldview that we might as well assume that threat actors are getting in, so we gotta figure out what to do about it. Join Nathaniel as we look at what zero trust is, what the government is saying about it, and evaluate some tips and techniques to implement it.

As usual these days of Covid, we will be meeting online at https://cafe.cyberia.club/dc612.

Talk starts at 6:12 PM U.S. Central, but feel free to hop in early and chat.

— TactiFail

Thursday, March 10th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

Hello hackers!

We weren’t able to find a speaker for this month, so tonight will just be a chill social hour. Bring some cool projects you’ve been working on, crack open a Jolt Cola (*the* soft drink of the Elite Hacker), and come hang out!

As usual these days of Covid, we will be meeting online at https://cafe.cyberia.club/dc612.

Talk(ing) starts at 6:12 PM U.S. Central, but feel free to hop in earlier.

— TactiFail

Thursday, February 10th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

Hello Hackers!

This month we are joined by Eric, a hacker who stopped playing guitar for 25 years, and in that time learned a bit about computers and programming.  Picking the guitar back up he ended up marrying the two and sharing his work with friends in a way that he controls the info being shared outside the walls of our sharing programs. From The Diary of a Madman:

Dear Diary.

This pandemic I relearned to play the guitar & share it on a low budget without giving my soul to a platform.  Let me tell you some more about the process and project.

~eric

As usual these days of Covid, we will be meeting online at https://cafe.cyberia.club/dc612.

Talk starts at 6:12 PM U.S. Central, but feel free to hop in early and chat.

— TactiFail

Thursday, January 13th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

Hello Hackers, and happy 2022!

Hopefully everyone is staying safe, healthy, warm, and curious.

This month we are joined by Michael Goetzman, a long-time hacker with a hobby running CypherCon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin:

Like Hacking, Ciphers, and Community engagement? Discover the origin stories and secrets of Wisconsin’s largest security conference CypherCon. We’ll dive into fascinating discussions about our midwestern community building innovative projects. Get a taste for what is to come with ‘never before seen’ retro simulated puzzle operating systems “Cypher Forest”, Virtual Reality, and more. We’ll end with a discussion on where we think the midwest hacker community is going in the next decade.

As usual these days of Covid, we will be meeting online at https://cafe.cyberia.club/dc612.

Talk starts at 6:12 PM U.S. Central, but feel free to hop in early and chat.

— TactiFail

Thursday, December 9th – 6:12pm @ Virtual

Hello Hackers!

Apologies for the late post, but we are excited to be joined by Kyler Middleton for this last meeting of the year:

Come learn how a large healthcare company converted their static CI/CD builders from static VMs to ephemeral docker builders that are deployed via terraform into both Azure and AWS.

Kyler Middleton (she/they) has been building and repairing computers since she found out the farmers around her childhood ranch would trade brownies for computer support. She is self-taught, and has worked throughout most of the IT spectrum, from building a call center for 200+ agents, managing networks and security for ~100 vet clinics, to securing health care data in the cloud. Middleton is a PluralSight author, and owns her own consulting firm, helping secure and connect American manufacturing. She is a strong advocate for making DevOps and security approachable. She works at IAM Pulse to help engineers with cloud IAM issues, and to help shape the industry around cloud security.

As usual these days of Covid, we will be meeting online at https://cafe.cyberia.club/dc612. See you there!

— TactiFail