Greater Augusta ISSA 2nd Quarter Public Meeting 16 June 2026 featuring Doug Burks

CSRA Info Sec Professionals,

Our next Greater Augusta ISSA public meeting will be held on Tuesday, 16 June 2026. Doug Burks will be discussing "SO-CRATES: Security Onion Containerized Rapid Analysis of Threats, Evil, and Sus!" Please join us for this in-person event. Pizza and refreshments will be provided prior to the discussion. Seats are limited, so please reserve yours today!

Please register at the following link: https://june-2026-augusta-issa.eventbrite.com

Abstract: SO-CRATES: Security Onion Containerized Rapid Analysis of Threats, Evil, and Sus! SO-CRATES is a new free and open source project for analyzing pcap files, log files, and binary files. Designed from first principles, it's a single container image that is simple yet tremendously powerful. In this talk, we'll discuss the reasons for building a new tool, how it compares to the full Security Onion platform, and then see how you can view network alerts, file alerts, and log alerts. We’ll then dive deeper into browsing network metadata (DNS, HTTP, TLS, flows), extracting ASCII transcripts, viewing per-packet hexdumps, and carving individual streams.

About the author: Doug Burks started Security Onion in 2008 to provide a comprehensive platform to help folks peel back the layers of their enterprise and make their adversaries cry. Today, Security Onion has over 2,500,000 downloads and is being used by organizations around the world for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. In 2014, Doug started Security Onion Solutions LLC to help those organizations by providing training, professional services, and hardware appliances. Doug is a CEO, public speaker, teacher, former president of the Greater Augusta ISSA, and co-founder of BSides Augusta, but what he really likes the most is catching bad guys.

For more about Doug Burks:
https://www.youtube.com/@dougburks4631
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougburks/
https://x.com/dougburks
https://securityonionsolutions.com/

Date: Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Georgia Cyber Center, 100 Grace Hopper Lane, Augusta, GA 30901, Room: Virtual World - Bit

If you are interested, please register at the link: https://june-2026-augusta-issa.eventbrite.com

1st Quarter Public Meeting 31 March 2026 featuring Mick Douglas

1st Quarter Public Meeting 31 March 2026 featuring Mick Douglas

CSRA Info Sec Professionals,

Our next Greater Augusta ISSA public meeting will be held on Tuesday, 31 March 2026. Mick Douglas will be discussing "We AI'd All the Things. Attackers Said Thanks." Please join us for this in-person event. Pizza and refreshments will be provided prior to the discussion. Seats are limited, so please reserve yours today!

Please register at the link: https://1stqtr-2026-augusta-issa.eventbrite.com

Abstract: Every application now has a chatbot. Every workflow has an AI assistant. Every company is shipping LLM-powered features as fast as possible. Security teams are left asking: how do we even scope this? In this talk, you'll get a methodology and an open-source tool for answering that question. Chainsmith is a distributed reconnaissance framework built specifically for AI/ML attack surface discovery—finding the LLM endpoints, exposed tools, leaky system prompts, and missing guardrails that traditional scanners typically miss entirely.

You'll leave with: A working tool you can deploy against your own infrastructure Monday morning17 AI-specific reconnaissance checks (and growing!) covering endpoint discovery, framework fingerprinting, tool enumeration, and prompt extractionAttack chain analysis that shows how five "informational" findings become one critical attack pathA mental model for thinking about AI vulnerabilities (spoiler: they live in the implementation layer, not the model)Bring a laptop. We're hunting chatbots.

About the Author: Mick Douglas has over 10 years of experience in information security and is currently the Managing Partner for InfoSec Innovations. He specializes in PowerShell, Unix, Data Visualization, Hardware, and Radio Hacking and teaches SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling and SEC555: Detection Engineering and SIEM Analytics. He has also been on the GIAC Advisory Board for over 12 years and is a faculty member of the SANS Technology Institute, an NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense and multiple winner of the National Cyber League competition. He’s authored numerous tools, led pen-testing teams, and has consulted with some of the largest infosec companies.

For more about Mick Douglas:
https://www.sans.org/profiles/mick-douglas
https://twitter.com/bettersafetynet
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mick-douglas/

Date: Tuesday, 31 March 2026

Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: Georgia Cyber Center, 100 Grace Hopper Lane, Augusta, GA 30901, Room: Virtual World - Bit

If you are interested, please register at the link: https://1stqtr-2026-augusta-issa.eventbrite.com