A presentation to last-year students in Belgium to provide an overview of the Cybersecurity community in Belgium. It also explains the value of volunteering and how to get involved personally. The presentation is somewhat biased towards OWASP, as I started the chapter in Belgium, but also contains pointers to ISACA, L-SEC, ISC2, BruCON and many more... If I missed an organisation or event - let me know!

1. Welcome to our Belgian IT
Security community
Sebastien Deleersnyder, Toreon, OWASP
CYBER SECURITY CHALLENGE BELGIUM 2019

2. Building our cybersecurity community!
1. Our community
2. Volunteering

3. OWASP
• The Open Web Application
Security Project (OWASP) is a
worldwide not-for-profit charitable
organization focused on
improving the security of
software.
• Our mission is to make software
security visible, so that
individuals and organizations are
able to make informed decisions.
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https://www.owasp.org

4. OWASP Belgium
• Regular chapter meetings
• Yearly BeNeLux conference
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https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Belgium
https://twitter.com/owasp_be
Google Groups:
https://groups.google.com/a/owasp.org/forum/#!forum/belgium-chapter/join

5. OWASP Projects
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Tools
Zed Attack Proxy
Web Testing Environment Project
OWTF
Dependency Check
Security Shepherd
DefectDojo Project
Juice Shop Project
Security Knowledge Framework
Dependency Track Project
Code
ModSecurity Core Rule Set
OWASP CSRFGuard
Documentation
Application Security Verification Standard
Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM)
AppSensor Project
Top Ten Project
Testing Project

6. open-security-summit.org
Tracks on API Security, CISO, DevSecOps, Machine Learning, Maps and
Graphs, OWASP Juice Shop, OWASP SAMM, OWASP projects, PSD2 and
GDPR, Security automation, Serverless, Threat modeling ...

8. ISACA Belgium
• The association focuses on assurance,
security, and governance and provides
globally recognised certification in
assurance (CISA), security (CISM), and
governance (CGEIT).
• Regular chapter meetings and events
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https://engage.isaca.org/belgiumchapter

9. (ISC)² Belux chapter
• The (ISC)² Belux Chapter is the official
association of (ISC)² certified information
security professionals (CISP) in Belgium &
Luxembourg. It is also open to all security
professionals or security enthusiasts in
Belgium and Luxembourg.
• Regular chapter meetings
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https://www.isc2chapter-belux.com/

10. LSEC
• international security cluster, a not for profit
organization that has the objective to promote
Information Security and the expertise in BeNeLux
and Europe.
• membership based
• regular events
• also together with CSA (cloud security alliance)
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https://www.leadersinsecurity.org
https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/

11. Infosecurity
• ICT-exhibition Infosecurity.be combined with Data &
Cloud Expo in Brussels Expo
• Yearly expo in March
• Free access
• Good networking opportunities
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https://www.infosecurity.be

12. Cyber Security Coalition
• The Cyber Security Coalition is a partnership
between players from the academic world, the public
authorities and the private sector to join forces in the
fight against cybercrime.
• Membership based
• Regular events
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https://www.cybersecuritycoalition.be

13. CERT.be
• The federal Computer Emergency Response Team,
or CERT.be for short, is the operational service of the
Centre for Cyber Security Belgium (CCB). The task
of CERT.be is to detect, observe and analyse online
security problems, and to inform various target
groups accordingly.
• Contact in case of incident…
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https://www.cert.be

14. Belgian Hackerspaces
• community-operated physical space where
people with common interests, often in
computers, technology, science, digital art or
electronic art, can meet, socialise and/or
collaborate.
• open community labs incorporating elements
of machine shops, workshops and/or studios
where hackers can come together to share
resources and knowledge to build and make
things.
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https://hackerspaces.be/
https://hackeragenda.be
• Hackerspace.gent Ghent
• Brixel Hasselt
• HSBXL - Hackerspace Brussels
Brussels
• Instant City Harbour Hennuyeres
• Ko-Lab Mechelen (Antwerpen)
• Liege Hackerspace Liege
• Micro Factory Anderlecht
• OpenGarage Borsbeek
• UrLab Brussels
• Voidwarranties Deurne (Antwerpen)
• Walking Robot LAB Deurne
(Antwerpen)
• Zeus WPI Ghent

15. BruCON
• BruCON is an annual security and hacker conference
providing two days of an interesting atmosphere for
open discussions of critical infosec issues, privacy,
information technology and its cultural/technical
implications on society.
• Yearly trainings and conference (Ghent, October)
• Student tickets
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https://www.brucon.org

16. Other nearby and further away
events
• FOSDEM (BE)
• SANS trainings
• Troopers (DE)
• Hack in the Box (NL)
• Hack.lu
• Hack in Paris
• 44CON (UK)
• Chaos Computer Club (CCC) (DE)
• DEF CON
• Black Hat
• RSA Conference 16

17. CyberWayFinder
• Empowering Women in Cyber Security
• CWF is an educational training with individualized
mentoring, so successful program ‘graduates’ exit
after three years as fully-certified mid-career
cybersecurity professionals
• also check out Women In AppSec
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https://www.cyberwayfinder.com/
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Women_In_AppSec

18. CyberSKool
• CyberSKool vzw organises a conference where we
teach kids (between the ages of 7 and 15) IT security
awareness, hacking (out of the box thinking and
problem solving) by doing STEM activities and IT
skills such as coding, hardware hacking, encryption,
general IT Security Awareness, etc. We make sure
that kids have fun while they learn these skills. We
give these exercises in Dutch, French and English.
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https://cyberskool.org/

19. CoderDojoBelgium
• CoderDojo organizes free coding workshops (called
Dojo’s) for girls and boys from 7 to 18 years old. A
Dojo is entirely prepared and led by volunteers. If you
are older, then you can help out at an existing Dojo
or start your very own CoderDojo!
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https://www.coderdojobelgium.be

20. Other channels
• InfoSec Belgium: https://github.com/cudeso/infosec-
belgium (Slack channel - invite only)
• Google Agenda: Information Security Events -
(Belgium)
https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=cnNrcTZ
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• Groups on LinkedIn …
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21. Volunteering makes you happier!
• connects you to others
• is good for your mind and body
• can advance your career
• brings fun and fulfillment to your life
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22. Get involved
• Use and donate (feed)back!
• Attend meetings
• Contribute to projects
• Share knowledge
• Sponsor chapters / projects
• Become member
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23. Thank you!
seba@toreon.com
seba@owasp.org
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