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
