Beers for Engineers with NAC-ISSA
2026-03-26 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | InnerSpace Brewing, 2414 Clinton Ave W, Huntsville, 35805-3014, United States
As of Sunday, March 8, Daylight Saving Time returns and the days get longer. Come celebrate the longer, warmer days with NAC-ISSA and the North Alabama cybersecurity community at InnerSpace Brewing. Beers and Pizza on NAC-ISSA; networking on YOU!

Southeast Cybersecurity Summit
2026-04-15 08:00 - 2026-04-16 17:00 | Birmingham Jefferson Convention Center, 2100 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd N, Birmingham, 35203, United States
The Central Alabama Information Systems Security Association (CA-ISSA), InfraGard Birmingham Member Alliance (IBMA) and TechBirmingham are jointly hosting a cybersecurity conference in April and invite anyone interested to attend. BSides Huntsville will return in 2027 so NAC-ISSA. Chapter members and guests are encouraged to fill their 2026 need for content this spring with the Southeast Cybersecurity Summit.

About the Summit

The purpose of the Summit is to strengthen and promote the internet security profession in the southeastern United States region. That goal is achieved through event activities which result in relationship building, information sharing, and ongoing education and training focused on current technology challenges and solutions.The Summit will highlight the strength, diversity and economic impact of the technology companies and talent working and living in the southeast.

NOTE: This is not a NAC-ISSA event. Registration is handled via the event website.

Tech Thursday presents The Network Cartographer: The Art of Digital Door-Knocking with NMap
2026-04-16 18:00 - 20:00 | GigaParts, 6123 University Dr NW, Huntsville, 35806, United States
Taken straight out of a hacker’s toolkit, learn how to figure out what’s really running on your network!

Learn to look through the eyes of a hacker as we investigate open services and ports, so you can understand what steps to take to lower your footprint. This workshop will tell you how to quickly and definitively understand your network exposure once and for all.

Attendees should download and install Nmap on their machine prior to the beginning of class. Nmap can be found at: https://nmap.org/download

Chapter lunch with Jason Cuneo and Digital Forensics
2026-04-21 11:30 - 12:30 | Auburn University Research and Innovation Campus, 345 Voyager Way, Huntsville, AL, 345 Voyager Way, Huntsville, United States
Join NAC-ISSA for our April chapter lunch with Jason Cuneo presenting on Digital Forensics.

In this lunch-and-learn session, Jason will draw on years of hands-on experience leading digital forensics projects, as well as teaching courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, to provide a practical introduction to modern digital forensics. The session will explore the techniques and tools used to conduct deep-level analysis of information systems across both Windows and Linux environments.

Attendees will gain a broad survey of investigative approaches, including operating system analysis, file system examination, process and memory analysis, protocol inspection, and the identification and interpretation of operating system–specific digital artifacts. Throughout the session, Jason will demonstrate several classes of digital forensics tools, connecting foundational theory with real-world use cases. The goal is to equip participants with actionable insights and methodologies that can be directly applied within everyday work environments.

Catering is by Ted’s with a potato bar, pulled pork and pulled chicken. This month’s door prize is a SwissGear laptop bag.

Jason’s Presentation is available for download.

2026-04-19 North Alabama ISSA Chapter Meeting – Digital ForensicsDownload

Beers for Engineers with Women in Defense
2026-04-23 16:30 - 19:30 | InnerSpace Brewing, 2414 Clinton Ave W, Huntsville, 35805-3014, United States
Join the North Alabama Chapter of ISSA and the Tennessee Valley Chapter of Women in Defense as we co-host Beers for Engineers in April. Both organizations seek to grow the cyber community throughout North Alabama. We’ll run this event from 4:30 to 7:30 at InnerSpace Brewing. Come join us to meet new friends and help make our cybersecurity community even stronger!

Beers for Engineers with Wallarm
2026-05-18 17:30 - 19:30 | InnerSpace Brewing, 2414 Clinton Ave W, Huntsville, 35805-3014, United States
Join the North Alabama Chapter of ISSA and our May chapter lunch sponsor, Wallarm, as we begin the week with Beers for Engineers. We’ll run this event from 5:30 to 7:30 at InnerSpace Brewing. Come join us to meet new friends and follow up with the chapter lunch on Tuesday, May 19.

WallArm sponsors May 2026 NAC-ISSA lunch
2026-05-19 11:30 - 12:30 | Auburn University Research and Innovation Campus, 345 Voyager Way, Huntsville, AL, 345 Voyager Way, Huntsville, United States
TOPIC: Business Logic Abuse: Technology Agnostic Mapping of Attack Types

OWASP’s technology specific top 10 lists have provided a ton of value, but it’s time for a different approach to business logic abuse. The rise of APIs and complex business logic attacks requires a new taxonomy that isn’t tied to a specific technology.

Our Speaker is Johanns Quiroz. Johanns Quiroz is a seasoned cybersecurity and technology professional with over two decades of experience helping organizations design, secure, and scale modern digital environments. Currently serving as a Sr. Sales Engineer at Wallarm, Johanns supports customers across the Southeast, LATAM, and Caribbean, where he focuses on application and API security, pre-sales strategy, and partner enablement. Prior to Wallarm, he held senior technical sales and engineering roles at Horizon3.ai, where he specialized in offensive security and helping organizations proactively identify and mitigate risk. Johanns also brings deep expertise in enterprise infrastructure, having spent over 20 years as a solutions architect designing complex environments across storage, virtualization, and cloud technologies. Known for his consultative approach and ability to bridge business and technical stakeholders, Johanns is passionate about helping organizations stay ahead of evolving cyber threats while enabling innovation and growth.

Catering for the May chapter lunch is by Rosies and we have 2 door prizes! First is a Faraday laptop backpack and second is a set of Faraday bags.

OWASP BLA Top 10Download

Tech Thursday: Bypassing MFA with evilginx2
2026-05-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Gigaparts, Address 6123 University Drive, Huntsville, 35806, United States
NAC-ISSA and DC256 will be hosting the next Tech Thursday on May 21 with Tativ presenting ” Cookie Monster Ops: Bypassing MFA with evilginx2″.

This event is free to anyone wishing to attend. Pizza and softdrinks served. This is a hands on event so please bring your own laptop.

Before the workshop, attendees should be comfortable with Linux command line (SSH, package install, basic shell), basic DNS and domain management (A records, nameservers) and VPS management. (We will still cover this.), and be familiar with HTTP(S) concepts, TLS/Let’s Encrypt, and browser extensions.

Before the workshop, attendees will need to: Create a Digital Ocean account if you don’t already have one. Obtain a domain from Namecheap.com (It does not matter what the domain is.) Download Firefox, and download the Cookie-Editor extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-editor/

Information for tonight’s session:

Attendees will need Docker installed on their machine.

Windows:

Install WSL by opening command prompts as administrator and using the command “wsl –install”

Follow this guide to install Docker Desktop. There are also walkthroughs on YouTube.

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/setup/install/windows-install

Mac:

Similarly to Windows, follow this guide to install Docker Desktop. It’s a pretty straight forward install:

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/setup/install/mac-install

Linux: For Linux, you have 2 options and either will work.

Download Docker Desktop:

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/setup/install/linux

Or Download Docker Engine via Command line:

https://docs.docker.com/engine/install

Next, download my custom Evilginx application from Github: https://github.com/DillonGriffin/dc256-evilginx-student If you would like to give it a test run, unzip the folder, Build, then Deploy.

Tech Thursday - Cracking the Code: Passwords, Hashes and the Tools that Break Them
2026-06-18 18:00 | Gigaparts, Address 6123 University Drive, Huntsville, 35806, United States
🔐 **Cracking the Code: Passwords, Hashes & the Tools That Break Them** @everyone **🗓️ TOMORROW — Thursday, June 18 · 6:00–8:00 PM****📍 GigaParts Classroom***DC256 × NAC-ISSA Tech Thursday · presented by Christian Clark*Ever wonder how passwords are actually stored — and why some fall in **seconds** while others hold out for **centuries**? In this hands-on session we’ll go from *”what even is a hash?”* to cracking real (synthetic!) hashes with the same tools the pros use: **John, Hashcat, Hydra, CeWL** . Then you’ll put it to work in **🏴 Hash Heist**, our live-leaderboard CTF.No experience required — we start from zero and build up. Beginners and seasoned folks both have a lane.**🎯 You’ll learn to:**• Tell hashing from encryption (and from encoding)• Spot MD5 / SHA / NTLM / bcrypt and rank them by crack-resistance• Pick the right attack — dictionary, rules, masks, hybrid, online guessing• Build a targeted wordlist, and map every attack to a **defense****💻 Bring a laptop + do this setup TONIGHT** 🙏It’s a **~1.2 GB download** (unpacks to ~5 GB on disk), so grab it on **home wifi** — the classroom wifi won’t be happy with everyone pulling it at once. You’ll need **Docker Desktop** (Win/macOS/Linux) → https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/ and ~8 GB free.“`bashgit clone https://github.com/bytetheio/crackstationcd crackstationdocker compose pulldocker compose up -d vuln-logindocker compose run –rm crackstation“`If you land at a prompt with a **crackstation** banner, you’re ready ✅ — type `exit`. *(Apple Silicon Macs: it runs under emulation, which is expected.)***🏁 Day-of links**• 🏆 Submit flags / live leaderboard → **https://board.0byte.sh**• <:happy_cookie:675372940572885043> Get to Hack Dillon’s Cookie Shop → **https://cookies.0byte.sh****⚖️ 100% legal & safe:** everything runs against **synthetic data we made up** — toy hashes, fake users, deliberately weak passwords. No real accounts.Come crack some hashes, climb the leaderboard, and walk away a sharper defender. See you tomorrow at GigaParts! 🍪🚩If you have any issues, please review https://github.com/bytetheio/crackstation.

More details found on the DC256 Discord page: https://discord.com/channels/741877434592395384/741886258388926494

This is our sixth monthly Tech Thursday for 2026. After this month, they will be less frequent so don’t miss you chance to attend this event! We will meet at Gigaparts for this free event. Pizza and softdrinks are served.

Beers for Engineers with AMG Defense Tech
2026-06-25 17:30 - 19:30 | InnerSpace Brewing, 2414 Clinton Ave W, Huntsville, 35805-3014, United States
Join the North Alabama Chapter of ISSA and our sponsor AMG (Alabama Media Group). We’ll run this event from 5:30 to 7:30 at InnerSpace Brewing. Come join us to meet new friends on Thursday, June 25.

AMG is also providing a door prize for one lucky attendee… a bottle of bourbon!

Celebrate 250 years of Independence with NAC-ISSA at Beers for Engineers
2026-07-16 17:30 - 19:30 | InnerSpace Brewing, 2414 Clinton Ave W, Huntsville, 35805-3014, United States
Join NAC-ISSA and InnerSpace Brewing as we celebrate America’s 250th anniversary of Independence on July 16. From the patriots who fought for freedom to today’s warriors, let’s lift a glass to their sacrifice. That includes our cyber warriors fighting to keep our companies and organizations secure.

Everyone is invited for Beer (or softdrinks) and pizza on NAC-ISSA.

July Chapter lunch with Red Team Operations presented by Caleb Havens
2026-07-21 11:30 - 12:30 | Auburn University Research and Innovation Campus, 345 Voyager Way, Huntsville, AL, 345 Voyager Way, Huntsville, United States
Join NAC-ISSA on Tuesday, July 21, at our chapter lunch. Everyone is invited to partake of Barbecue, good company and good information.

Caleb Havens will be presenting a series of scenarios from his Red Team Operations at NetSPI demonstrating the techniques, tools, and pretexts used to breach security-hardened organizations, demonstrating how social engineering remains the most effective initial access vector even against technically sophisticated defenses. He will be sharing the importance of ensuring organizations are stress-testing the people, processes, and technologies of their organization as a litmus test of their security posture.

We continue the 250th Independence Day celebration with a Barbecue buffet from Teds, door prizes of a Swiss Gear laptop backpack and a pack of Faraday bags for two lucky attendees. The event is open to all members, guests and friends of ISSA or anyone with an interest in cyber security.

Zscaler sponsors Beers for Engineers
2026-08-06 17:30 - 19:30 | InnerSpace Brewing, 2414 Clinton Ave W, Huntsville, 35805-3014, United States
Can’t make it to DEF CON this year? Bring a little Vegas to Huntsville! Join us this Thursday for NAC-ISSA’s Beers for Engineers, sponsored by Zscaler, and show off your hacker spirit.👕 Wear your favorite DEF CON, Spot the Fed, or other hacker conference t-shirt.🎟️ Still have an old DEF CON badge? Dust it off and wear it!🍺 Grab a beer, meet fellow engineers and cybersecurity professionals, and enjoy an evening of great conversations with Huntsville’s tech community.

Thank you to Louis Albuerne and ZScaler for helping us kick off August with Beers for Engineers! Join your peers in cyber security at InnerSpace Brewing for craft beer and softdrinks, wood fired oven baked pizza and networking.

Fortinet sponsors Beers for Engineers
2026-08-20 17:30 - 19:30 | InnerSpace Brewing, 2414 Clinton Ave W, Huntsville, 35805-3014, United States
Let’s wrap up the summer with the 2nd Beers for Engineers of August as we prepare for the National Cyber Summit in September! Join us as Fortinet sponsors Beers for Engineers on Thursday, August 20. Be sure to thank Robert Wilson for the sponsorship.

NAC-ISSA August lunch: Understanding Cybersecurity in America's Water Systems
2026-08-27 11:30 - 12:30 | Gigaparts, Address 6123 University Drive, Huntsville, 35806, United States
Recent cyber attacks against drinking water and wastewater utilities have raised important questions about the security of one of our nation’s most essential critical infrastructure sectors. This lunchtime presentation takes participants inside the world of municipal water operations, explaining how treatment plants, pumping stations, storage facilities, and industrial control systems work together to deliver safe drinking water and protect public health. We will explore why these operational technologies differ from traditional IT systems, how cyber threats can disrupt physical processes, what recent incidents reveal about the evolving threat landscape, and which practical engineering and cybersecurity measures can most effectively improve resilience. Whether you are a cybersecurity professional, utility operator, or simply interested in critical infrastructure, this session will provide a practical understanding of why securing the water sector has become a matter of both public safety and national security.

Speaker: Marcus Sachs

This lunch is on the fourth Thursday rather than our usual Tuesday lunch and it will be held at Gigaparts on University Drive. This change is for one month after which we will be back on our usual schedule and location. Lunch begins just before 11:30. Catering is Walton’s Southern Table.
