In advance of ShmooCon, Rapid7 co-organized the Hackers On The Hill event with the omnipresent Beau Woods of I Am The Cavalry. The event aims to help give security pros an opportunity to learn about engaging in public policy relating to cybersecurity. The event brought around 70 hackers to Capitol Hill to engage in meetings with Congressional offices, discuss cybersecurity policy issues of interest to the security research community, and provide resources and education on how to make policy advocacy more effective. It was a great event! A good turnout from the research community (in town for Shmoo), a beautiful room on the Hill secured with the help of Congressional staff, and lots of positive engagement in the meetings with Congressional offices towards the latter half of the day. Check out the website and Twitter handle for more - here’s looking forward to doing it again in 2021.
As part of that event, I gave a presentation on the state of cybersecurity policy, and produced a brief guide for visiting Congressional offices. Since then, I’ve received positive feedback and several requests to post the guide and the slides. So here we go.
The Unofficial Guide to Meeting With Congressional Offices was a resource to participating hackers preparing for their first Hill meetings. We created a version specially for the event, but here is an updated version for you to use if you are interested in briefing Congress.
The Hacking Policy presentation is available here. The presentation gave an overview of the volume and themes of c ..
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