Africa Hackon

Africahackon is East Africa’s premier technical computer security collective which brings together the individual talents of the best and brightest security professionals in the region, through live presentations, engaging discussions and hands on demonstrations. AfricaHackon houses not just ICT professionals but architects, electrical engineers, designers and business professionals.

AfricaHackOn started with a simple conversation between two information security engineers – Bright Gameli Mawudor and Lewis Ng’ang’a. They met online on Facebook where they realised their common interest in Cyber Security. They were concerned with how Kenya lacked awareness in the field and the fact that the industry still remained in the shadows.

On 30th September, 2013, they came up with an idea to emulate hacker conferences that happen around the world. These include DEFCON, BLACKHAT, DERBYCON, HACK MIAMI and several others.

On 28th of February 2014 in Nairobi, Africa Hackon organized the first hacking conference in Kenya. The event is back this year, happening on 30th July at the iHub following a call for Presentations for #opZeroDay 2015 whose deadline passed on 30th May. The conference is not meant only for hackers, it’s for anyone with an appreciation and fascination with information systems, gadgets and how they can be tinkered with.

The conference will focus on cyber security. Cyber Security is increasingly becoming a key component of the strategy of organizations in the country and is an agenda that needs to be driven right from top level management all the way down to every person in the organization. Competent Information Security staff should be part of every organization. Cyber security should be ingrained in the organizations strategy and no longer be an afterthought. AfricaHackon is pushing this agenda through a dedicated team of passionate and skilled professionals in varied areas of cyber security.

Tickets & Venue
Venue: iHub, 4th Bishop Magua Center, Nairobi on July 31st 2015
Tickets: Available at Ticket Sasa. Advance tickets going for Ksh. 1,500.

Resources

Find resource papers on Cyber Security and other material from the 2014 conference here

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Africahackon is East Africa’s premier technical computer security collective which brings together the individual talents of the best and brightest security professionals in the region, through live presentations, engaging discussions and hands on demonstrations. AfricaHackon houses not just ICT professionals but architects, electrical engineers, designers and business professionals. AfricaHackOn started...