October 13 – October 14, 2025
Old Dominion University
Webb University Center
1301 W 49th St, Norfolk, VA 23529
Registration is now open!
Join us at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, for the highly anticipated VASCAN 2025 conference! Taking place on October 13th and 14th, this event is a valuable platform for member institutions to share their experiences and best practices, fostering growth across the VASCAN community.
Attendee Registration & Pricing
Conference Only = $125
Conference and Training = $225
Training Only (ONLY for Presenters) = $100
MUST have a .edu or .gov email address to register via this link!
To pay by check, contact Hope Adams at adamsh@vcu.edu
Lodging
The hotel block for VASCAN 2025 is completely booked. Please seek out hotels in the surrounding area and book online, remembering to select the government or state rate from the filters to get your best pricing. Learn more.
Travel Tips
There is considerable construction on 64E and 64W, including construction on the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel. EXPECT DELAYS, especially from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 to 6:30 p.m.
You may want to consider using the Monitor Merrimack Bridge Tunnel or the James River Bridge as alternatives and entering Norfolk from either the Downtown or Midtown tunnels.
Check VDOT’s 511Virginia website or app for real-time traffic conditions, construction updates, and alerts before heading out.
You may want to consider taking the train to Norfolk to avoid the construction issues.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship is full for 2025. If you have any questions please contact Hope Adams, adamsh@vcu.edu. IF you are a Vendor Rep DO NOT register under the attendee site contact Hope.
Founder’s Award Nomination
During our annual VASCAN conference, the VASCAN Founder’s Award (Formerly the Shirley Payne IT Security Advancement Award) is given to an IT security professional, manager or auditor who has contributed to the Virginia information security community in a notable way, or who joined the community and exhibited an admirable commitment to developing themselves and others, the necessary skills to execute and advance an effective information security program. Please submit your nominations before EoB on Friday, September 12, 2025. Submit a Founder’s Award nomination.
Keynote
Communicating Cyber Risk
Communicating and reporting continue to be a pain point in infosec—both in terms of getting a clear understanding of how the program is functioning, as well as communicating a risk narrative across lines of business. We constantly struggle with clarity in the reason behind reporting, leaving us with unanswered questions on (1) What to track, and (2) Which data to share? We will kick off VASCAN by stepping through fundamental practices to help you think about communicating business risk, in both changing and stable environments.
IANS Faculty
About the speaker
Ryan Leirvik is the Founder and CEO of NEUVIK, a cybersecurity research and development consultancy. He has spent the better part of two decades enhancing cyber programs at the world’s largest institutions — from the Department of Defense to some of the most successful private and commercial organizations. He focuses largely on providing advanced capabilities for CISO’s, as well as testing for best possible security practices at board of directors’ requests.
Training
Linux Command-Line For Analysts and Operators
The DevOps folks are pushing Linux, your red-team friends are doing serious damage with Linux-based tools, and the Linux users on your Incident Response team are doing mysteriously powerful things. You’re ready to see if some of the Linux magic can rub off on you, but you don’t know where to start.
This one-day course, from 9 to 5, is a quick jumpstart on the Linux command-line. Start from the basics and work all the way up to command-line programming. Short learning modules and lots of practical hands-on activities will put you on the road to Linux command-line mastery. And electronic copies of everything are yours to take home, so you can continue the learning even after class is over.
About the instructor
Hal Pomeranz is an independent consultant who has spent more than thirty years providing pragmatic Information Technology and Security solutions for some of the world’s largest commercial, government, and academic institutions. He started using Unix in the 1980s and what a long strange trip it’s been.
Key takeaways
- Basic building blocks for effective shell pipelines
- Key programming concepts for rapid command-line prototyping
- Regular expressions for selecting and manipulating data
- Shortcuts to make you more effective on the command-line
- Core skills to continue learning on your own
Who should take this course
- Anybody who wants to improve their effectiveness on the Linux command line!
- Analysts who need to review data and alerts in the Linux environment
- Penetration testers and operators looking to more effectively live off the land on Linux networks
- Administrators and developers building and defending Linux application infrastructures
Audience skill level
- No familiarity with Linux is assumed. Experience with some command line (e.g. Windows command or Powershell) is helpful but not necessary.
What a student should bring
- A properly configured laptop (running Linux natively or with a working Linux virtual machine) and natural curiosity
What students will be provided with
- Students will receive course slides in PDF form along with lab exercises which they can run on their own Linux system.