Gold Sponsor: Agility IS

www.agilityis.uk

AgilityIS is a premier Information Security Services Provider committed to excellent client service, delivering high value through our exceptional staff. Whether you need penetration testing, web application assessments, social engineering, security audit or assurance, we are dedicated to leading the industry and inspiring our clients to employ industry good practices as their trusted security partner.

Gold Sponsor: EraSearch

	Bruce Baer
	new at erasearch.com
	+44 7974 714 727
	www.erasearch.com
Founded in 2000, EraSearch has extensive successful experience of identifying high calibre candidates from the Information Technology and IT Security industries and delivering effective search services to consultancies and corporate clients. We place great emphasis on absolute discretion, by privately researching and identifying the right candidates; valued by both clients and candidates alike.

Video: Amsterdammed (2014)

Over £39,500 raised for Barnardo's

White Hat Rally's 2014 Amsterdammed event raised over £39,500 to support the work of Barnardo's. This will make a real positive difference to the lives of vulnerable children. Thanks to all the teams, our sponsors and those who supported the teams by making donations. The top five teams' totals reflect the amazing effort they put in - Fantastic!

     £     #    Team
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  4178    17    The Great E(Sky)scape
  2659    12    D Crypt
  2659    11    N Crypt
  2602    23    Buffy's in the Boot
  2513    21    Company85 Horror Show

2014 Event Sponsors

Many individuals, organisations and sponsors helped to make our 2014 event a success and contributed to raising £39,500 for Barnardo's to enable them to help vulnerable children. We would like to thank all our supporters and event sponsors for their generosity!

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Get involved - help us to make a difference to the lives of vulnerable children

We are looking for corporate sponsors for our event. This is a great opportunity to promote your brand, and to network with the teams during the rally. If you would like to sponsor the event please contact us. You can also view our sponsorship packages to see the options available.

Amsterdammed - Awards 2014

All the teams made a fantastic effort over the three long days of this very challenging rally, and most survived to tell their story!  At the close of the event, after all scores and votes were in, we presented the following awards on behalf of our sponsors to the winning teams and individuals who gave it 110% throughout!  Very well done to you all!!

Winners!		The Great E(Sky)scape
Runners Up		Company85 Horror Show
Third Place		Fleabags
Most Money Raised		The Great E(Sky)scape
Best Dressed Car		Damned Busters
Best Dressed Team		N/D Crypt
Best Rally Performance		Geoff Jones
Most Flamboyant Exhibitionist!		John Godwin
Best Newcomers		Buffy's in the Boot

Gold Sponsor 2014: PortSwigger Web Security

www.portswigger.net
PortSwigger Web Security is a global leader in the creation of software tools for security testing of web applications. For nearly a decade, we have worked at the cutting edge of the web security industry, and our suite of tools is well established as the de facto standard toolkit used by web security professionals. Contact: office at portswigger.net

Silver Sponsor 2014: NTT Com Security

	Gail O’Donnell
	gail.odonnell at nttcomsecurity.com
	0118 902 6062
	http://www.nttcomsecurity.com/
NTT Com Security (formerly Integralis) is a global information security and risk management organisation, which delivers a portfolio of managed security, business infrastructure, consulting and technology integration services through its WideAngle brand. NTT Com Security helps organisations lower their IT costs and increase the depth of IT security protection, risk management, compliance and service availability.

Silver Sponsor 2014: Corecom Consulting

	James Hill
	j.hill at corecomconsulting.co.uk
	0113 394 4188
	www.corecomconsulting.co.uk
Corecom consulting was founded by four of Yorkshire's leading IT recruitment specialists and pioneers in their respective fields. Strategically headquartered in Leeds, the second legal and financial capital of the UK, our consultants specialise in vertical markets, including: Senior Appointments, Project Management, Development, Testing/QA and the IT Security industry.

Silver Sponsor 2014: The Infosecurity Group

	Malcolm Wells
	infosecurity.helpline at reedexpo.co.uk
	0208 271 2130
	www.infosec.co.uk www.infosecurity-magazine.com
The Infosecurity Group – comprising Infosecurity Europe, Infosecurity Magazine and the Global Executive Network – invests continuous effort to support and drive the information security industry forward in person, in print and online. Infosecurity Europe is Europe’s number one information security event. Infosecurity Magazine provides knowledge and insight to a distributed to over 65,000. The Global Executive Network connects senior information security executives and business leaders.

Bronze Sponsor 2014: Company85

	Sukhi Grewal
	Sukhi.grewal at company85.com
	07955 638 696
	www.company85.com
Company85 is an independent IT consulting firm specialising in enterprise-class information protection, transformation and service management. Headquartered in London, we provide advisory, implementation and managed services to FTSE100 clients and public sector organisations across the UK, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the US to lead change, strip out cost, and safeguard data.

Bronze Sponsor 2014: Skybox Security

	Shani Nisimov
	shani.nisimov at skyboxsecurity.com
	+97 2546 380 568
	www.skyboxsecurity.com
Skybox Security provides the most powerful risk analytics platform for cyber security management with the intelligence and network visibility needed to eliminate attack vectors and safeguard business data and services. Skybox solutions provide a context-aware view of the network and risks that drives effective enterprise-scale vulnerability and threat management, firewall management and compliance monitoring.

Bronze Sponsor 2014: Bridewell Consulting

	Anthony Young
	ay at bridewellconsulting.com
	01189 255 082
	www.bridewellconsulting.com
Bridewell Consulting specialises in the provision of Security and Risk support services across the UK. We can deliver advisory services or can support internal teams with our specialist consultants. We supply, at short notice if necessary, the most appropriately qualified and experienced consultants on a contract, managed resource or advisory basis.

2014 Supporters

Amanda Finch admin at iisp.org +44 2033 840 399	Peter Laycock    peter.laycock at ntlworld.com    +44 7715 479 656

IAP (Information Assurance Practitioners) Conference: 5 - 6 March 2014

Come and see us at IAP next week to hear all about Amsterdammed, our Rise of the Dark Net adventure across northern Europe.

Wednesday and Thursday, 5 - 6 March 2014 at York Racecourse

See us at CRESTCon & iisp Congress on 19 March

Come and see us at CRESTCon in March to hear all about Amsterdammed, our Rise of the Dark Net adventure across northern Europe.

Wednesday, 19 March 2014 from 09:00 to 18:00

Royal College of Surgeons
35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London, WC2A 3PE

Amsterdammed launch party a huge success!

On Behalf of Barnardo’s and White Hat Rally, we would like to thank everyone that joined us this week at our 2014 “The Rise of the Dark Net” launch event. We had a fantastic evening and have teams signed up already for this year's adventure!

The Rally would not be possible without your participation and support, and we would be delighted if you can join us on 19th September as we go to Europe. Remember, you don’t need to be a petrol head; the event is open to all, in any vehicle!

Please take just 10 minutes now to sign up your team by clicking the registration button on the left or on the home page.

At the launch event we were really pleased to be able to hand over such a large sum of money to Barnardo’s. The final amount of £43,341 was presented by Stephen Khan to Barnardo’s  Director of Fundraising, Allan McLaren. You can read about what your money goes into supporting on our website.

If you were not able to make it along to our launch for any reason, then all the information you could require about the next Rally event, how to register your team, how to make a donation and how you can sponsor is all available on this website.

Start planning your adventure today!

What is the dark net?

In network terms, the dark net is a virtual network layered over the Internet through which computers can communicate anonymously and securely. This has some benefits around whistle blowing and freedom of speech, but inevitably there's a dark side too. From terrorism, weapons and drugs trading, assassinations and, sadly, child pornography. With it's origins from around 2004, with the first public open source  release of TOR (The Onion Router), the rapid rise of the dark net has changed our world irrevocably.

Interestingly, and unrelated to the dark net, operation Dark Net was the codename used for a distributed denial of service attack that was launched by Anonymous to bring down websites hosting child pornography. Ironically, many of these sites identified and targeted were contained within a dark internet segment. Such segments are so named as they seemingly become detached from the Internet and are non-responsive to normal traffic, as if the address space were a black hole.

So the darkness where vampires, ghost, goblins and all things that go bump in the night lurk ties in nicely to dark net, dark web, dark internet and Dark Net. In our Amsterdammed adventure, the dark net is the perfect place to start exploring Europe in search of clues. This year's event, The Rise of the Dark Net, culminates in Amsterdam amongst the dark canals and creaky bridges.

2014 Launch Party

Be part of the dark adventure…

Join our LAUNCH PARTY

The 2014 “The Rise of the Dark Net” White Hat Rally takes place 19-21 September 2014. What better way to give you a sneak preview of the event and to discover all the gory details by throwing a party!

The Rally would not be possible without your participation and support and we would be delighted if you could join us at our launch event in January so we can show you what a success the past years have been, and what you can expect from next year's event.

DATE:            Wednesday 22nd January 2014
TIME:             From 6pm, cheque presentation at 7pm
LOCATION:  The London Stone
                       109 Cannon St, London EC4N 5AD
THEME:         Amsterdammed - WHR 2014

Secure your ticket now!

As always, the White Hat Rally have an amazing adventure planned, and what’s even better is that next year we are taking you into Europe for the fright of your life!

All are welcome to join the Information Security community on this weekend rally to support Barnardo’s in their work with vulnerable children and teenagers. By entering a team, sponsoring the event, or by making a donation you will them help achieve this goal.

Get involved…

Hunting paedophiles on the dark net

The Home Office minister responsible for combating online child abuse has announced an initiative to search the dark net for paedophiles. Using GCHQ's resources, normally focused on spies and terrorists, and drawing on expertise from specialists in industry, including Google and Microsoft, they hope to bring down paedophile networks operating within the dark net.

Unicef claims there are hundreds of thousands of websites with child pornography worldwide and it is likely that child pornography consumers are even more active on hidden networks, such as TOR (Onion).

Read more on the Telegraph Blog and at The Sunday Times