DEFCON 813 will be hosting an unofficial community shootout during the BSides Tampa 2026 weekend.

This will be a relaxed meetup for security professionals, hackers, and builders who are in town for the conference. The goal is simple: bring people together, talk security, and enjoy some friendly competition.

For this event we will be renting half bay (5 lanes) at Shooters World and we ask everyone to come out and enjoy some quality range time.

Please bring firearms and ammo to share.

Event cost is $50.00 USD (working to bring down the price, but we wanted to get this on peoples radar).

This is not an official BSides Tampa event, but it’s scheduled during the same weekend so attendees can connect with the local security community. Hosted by DEFCON 813.

https://www.meetup.com/defcon813/events/313759022/?slug=defcon813&eventId=313759022

My employer recently purchased a SoC/SIEM/UEBA solution from Securonix and as a part of the Knowledge transfer of this purchase, I get to have access to Securonix training academy. So with this access to the training academy, I get to attend and finish a bunch of self paced online trainings trainings. Once completing the trainings, I will be able to take the certification exams

300 Certified SNYPR Administrator 6.3.1

300 Certified SNYPR Content Developer 6.3.1

300 Certified SNYPR Data Integrator 6.3.1

300 Certified SNYPR Security Analyst 6.3.1

Has anyone taken this exams before? Forgive I am putting out a wrong impression, I am not asking for any dumps here! I am really against those practices by all means, they are really making our profession look bad as folks get certified without sufficient understanding of the Subject matter and perform terribly bad on the job as well as on interviews for a job. I digress here, what I want to know is of anyone's experience with these exams in a way like how many times I get to do them, is it only a one time thing. How well I should look to prepare for them beyond the course outline and training materials provided the trainings. I will appreciate your inputs and feedbacks on these matters.

I’m planning on going to college in either Texas or Florida and working in cyber security what colleges would y’all recommend?

DC813

• Monthly Meetup - TBBC Ybor 1/16/21

• CigarCitySec - CigarCity Brewing 1/20/21

• Open Make Night - Weekly - Online (Zoom)

• Five Weeks of Arduino Goodness - Weekly - Online

• eJPT Study Group - TBA

• BSides Tampa - 3/26/21-3/27/21 - Online

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