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Jun 1, 2015

UPR-RP security community attended the Security BSidesPR 2015


The students Christian Maldonado, Ian Dávila, Luis Albertorio, Bianca Colón, Hector Roman, and Christopher de Jesús, professors José Ortiz-Ubarri, Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga, and Rafael Arce-Nazario, and UPR-RP IT Felipe Torres and Luis Flores  attended the Security BSidesPR 2015 supported by the ATACK-PR project.  

 

 

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The University of Puerto Rico students Christian Maldonado, Ian Dávila, Luis Albertorio, Bianca Colón, Hector Roman, and Christopher de Jesús, professors José Ortiz-Ubarri, Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga, and Rafael Arce-Nazario, and UPR-RP IT Felipe Torres and Luis Flores  attended the Security BSidesPR 2015 supported by the ATACK-PR project.

 

Students in the Security BsidesPR 2015 reception. 

The Security BSidesPR 2015 conference was held at the Puerto Rico Convention Center from May 29 to May 30 in San Juan, PR.  The goal of the conferenec is to integrate the Hardware, Developer, Offensive and Defensive communities in one InfoSec summit.  The full schedule of the conference can be found here.  

 

 Students and other attendees trying lock picking techniques

One of the objectives of the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project ATACK-PR is to increase student awareness and mastery of cybersecurity concepts and skills through invited speakers, trainings with outside experts, student research projects, and travel to cybersecurity conferences.