2025-04-13 –, Training
Join us for a tabletop roleplaying game (RPG) with real-world wins! Participant-players seeking their first role in cyber – or simply transitioning to a new specialization – will transform their current resume's "character sheet" into a freshly reskilled or dual-classed hero, ready to take on any cybersecurity hiring process for your next infosec campaign.
“You're new to these parts, traveler. Want to join a new infosec campaign party I’m forming? We’re defending the castle, and don’t have enough heroes to – wait. Where’s your sword?! You can’t defend with a lute!”
Actually, you can.
See, in 2023, I faced that same skepticism from infosec hiring managers: No IT or cyber background, so I clearly didn't have what it took to be a cybersecurity professional.
After a slew of rejections, I found some old 20-sided-dice… and I realized I needed to completely reframe my previous career.
Now? I’m a threat intel analyst at a major insurance provider, helping my team translate technical research and controls into actionable recommendations for the business.
Let me show you how you, too, can pivot into information security during this three-hour RPG tabletop campaign-workshop.
I’ll guide participant-players through a modern infosec hiring process RPG tabletop “campaign” workshop, acting as the game master as participant-players reskill their classes and adjust their application strategies to win a coveted role for their infosec party.
In the end, you’ll walk away with concrete research, tools, and techniques to help your next employer properly value and respect your current non-infosec skills and experience in your first (or next!) infosec role.
Stryker is a cyber threat analyst at GEICO, where she translates technical research and qualitative intelligence into the "so what?" and "what now?" solutions that keep more people safe and secure. You can find her on LinkedIn, Mastodon, or in the Lonely Hackers Club (LHC) Telegram chat, where she once (in)famously ranted about how commercial gun safes do not make for secure off-site data storage options. Stryker lives in Baltimore, growing parsley for butterflies and algae for shrimp.
Wes Sheppard is a Chief Information and Intelligence Officer, most recently at Canadian logistics start-up OrderGrid. Over the course of his (circuitous) career, Wes has been responsible for cyber-business risk, data privacy, cybersecurity law, cloud security, secure generative AI implementations, and infrastructure-level security. He has worked in various industries and around the world, including the United States, China, Japan, and the Netherlands. Wes is a regular contributor to BSides regional conferences, DEF CON, and ISC2.