CSides Monthly Meetups

CSides Monthly Security Meetups provide an opportunity to listen to and share security research within the Canberra region. The meeting occurs normally on the 2nd Friday of every month. Each meetup consists of 1-2 talks of around 30 mins each. Talks start at 6pm and are followed by some socialising at a local pub.

New attendees are welcome, just come along! (There are no entry fees, and no tickets to book)

The talks at CSides are technical. CSides welcomes new and interesting speakers to present - the topic will be on a technical or security issue. As a speaker you can be an expert, a student, someone learning a new area or maybe a regular speaker on the conference circuit, but we also love to have new and occasional speakers. Please contact one of the organisers below if you are interested in speaking.

You are very welcome to propose running activites other than talks, such as hands-on workshops, an infosec quiz or something else relevant to our techie audience!

Location: Canberra Rex Hotel
150 Northbourne Ave
Braddon ACT 2612
Time: 6.00pm
Afterwards: Swan & King Bar
Canberra Rex Hotel
Organisers: Kylie McDevitt
Silvio Cesare

Future Dates:

Friday 14th November 2025

Against Imperva's wishes, I made 10000 kids

Collecting data from the game of Pokemon Go involves bulk creation of accounts. In order to combat bots and other abusers of the game, a cloud WAF is used to prevent mass account sign-ups. This talk outlines some cheap techniques that can be used to bypass anti-bot measures employed by Imperva and other similar security platforms.

Aeriana Lawler (Shiny Skitty)

Aeriana Lawler (Shiny Skitty) is a Linux sysadmin who these days [unfortunately] works in cyber security auditing. In their spare time, Skitty likes to level the playing field in Pokemon Go by developing tools to annoy spoofers in the game.

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Past Talks:

See more past CSides talks at https://bsidescbr.com.au/archive.html

Friday 6th June 2025

What DFIR Teaches about Immigration (and Vice Versa)

Immigrating to a new country is one of the most challenging decisions a human being can make (or have forced on them). While making an unplanned new start in Australia, Lesley discovered a lot of their personal success came from hard learned skills developed over years in digital forensics and incident response. In this talk, Lesley will talk about the translatable skills DFIR people can utilize to move countries, and skills immigrants can use to move into the high pressure space of incident response.

Lesley Carhart

Lesley Carhart is a director of incident response for the industrial cybersecurity company Dragos. They also teach ICS515 for SANS. In their free time, Lesley teaches martial arts, runs cybersecurity career clinics, and enjoys a nice D&D game. They recently relocated from Chicago to Melbourne.
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