Rocket Secure
Rocket Secure presented by NAC-ISSA and hosted at Calhoun Community College, Huntsville Campus! It provides a realistic and safe platform where individuals and organizations can practice responding to cyber threats, conducting security exercises, and honing their cybersecurity capabilities without risking real-world systems or data.
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Rocket Secure
Rocket Secure is sponsored by NAC-ISSA and is held in the fall every year.
October 16-17, 2026
Calhoun Community College, Huntsville Campus
About Rocket Secure
What is Rocket Secure
Rocket Secure is a Cyber Conference held in the fall each year, hosted by NAC-ISSA. The goal is to expand the spectrum of conversation beyond the traditional confines of space and time. It creates opportunities for individuals to both present and participate in an atmosphere that encourages collaboration. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants.
Training (October 16th)
Note: These trainings do not have a cost associated with them and do not require you to be registered for the sessions on the 17th.
Leadership Training by Anastasia Byler
Inside the Shark Tank: Wireshark Basics
Shell Sorcery: The Magic of the Linux Command Line
The Network Cartographer: The Art of Digital Door-Knocking with NMap
Huntsville Hack the Box Meetup
Louis Albuerne from ZScaler
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Speakers (October 17th)
Social Media Cyber & AI Awareness by Shama Patel
Grant-Funded CMMC Readiness by Janero Washington
Bridging the Audit Bottleneck through Automated Compliance and Apprenticeships. This session covers how defense suppliers can overcome the CMMC Level 2 audit bottleneck by combining automated compliance platforms with our CRCF framework, state/federal grants, and DOL Registered Apprenticeships to convert assessment gaps into zero-cost remediation.
Becoming the Gray Man in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Jeremy Blevins
Ways to improve literacy in K-12 schools by Rashad Robinson
Improving reading and writing skills of students as well as helping them use technology properly without heavy screen times.
A Harness for the Chaos: Mental Resilience in Cybersecurity. by Horica “Rico” Ionescu
Overlapping Compliance Frameworks by Tim Sandage
Current ongoing scams and how to mitigate them & Cyber as a new/second career by Rita Edwards
A Freshman Introduction to Third Party Vendor Risk Identification and Report Writing by Kaitlyn Brown
Lockpicking Crash Course by DC256
CMMC by Steven Pratt
DevSecOps is Broken by Darious Radford
Who’s Harold Finch by Jack Harston & Harvey Lange
Beyond AI Automation: Building Secure, Accountable, and Resilient Operations by Lemon Williams
Beyond the Firewall: Leading People, Decisions, and Accountability in a Cyber-Driven Organization by Tarrell Tarver
Cybersecurity failures are not always technology failures. They are often communication, leadership, decision-making, and accountability failures that become technology problems.
TBD
AI Ethics by Andrew Staton
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