Slides:
Veronika Harcenoka – “Cyber Security: Think Security First” at Security focused 33rd DevClub.lv
Videos from presentation:
APT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_XOrcBxy-E
STUXNET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g0pi4J8auQ
Project2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQletWanDzQ
Announcement of Security focused 33rd DevClub.lv
Hi!
Security is hard, Security breach if frightening. But what is more frightening – now knowing how to secure yourself, or do not have will to?
33rd DevClub will guide you to the world of security in all forms – security breaches, cyber defence and how to hack without problems.
Agenda for Security focused 33rd DevClub.lv at July 16th 18:30 at Microsoft Latvia office (Zaļā iela 1):
- Baiba Kaskina from CERT.LV will talk about “Responsible Disclosure Policy”.
This talk will explain the main principles of responsible or coordinated response, who are the actors of this game, what colour are their hats and what could be the possible implementation. Known cases of responsible disclosure policy Latvia as well as international experience will be discussed and future steps considered.
(Language — Latvian)
Tags: Responsible disclosure policy , non-technical, cases in Latvia
Baiba Kaskina is the head of CERT.LV – Latvian national and governmental CSIRT team.
- Veronika Harcenoka from Data Security Solutions will talk about Cyber Security: Think Security First
The scale and integration of modern technologies into our daily lives has provided tremendous opportunities for everyone. The speed of development and innovation in the ICT sector and the amount of information produced and distributed online is like never before. The process is so fast that we often do not have time to consider the risks and their impact on our society, business, and personal life. So, let us take a moment to think about the security online.
(Language — English)
Tags: Cyber Security Information Security, Cyber Crime, Online Threats, Privacy, Future Crime
Veronika Harcenoka , Business Development Manager, Data Security Solutions
Solid experience in high tech ICT/ICT Security involves major projects in Latvia and the European Union. Previously worked in European Security Round Table and Microsoft Government Affairs office in Brussels.
- Major Gatis Graudiņš from Cyber Defence Unit of the Latvian National Guard (Twitter @kibersargs) will talk about Cyber Defence Unit and daily life of unit
If you would be interested in what happening in Cyber Defence field of Latvian Republic, this presentation would be one to listen for.
I will try to tell short presentation about our unit, what we do on daily basis, where we were already involved and other interesting things in connection to our activities.(Language — Latvian)
Major Gatis Graudiņš is Commander of Cyber Defence Unit of the Latvian National Guard.
Clusterpoint has announced international online hackathon (available also for participants from Latvia) over the ChallengePost SummerJam event platform. The hackathon is dedicated to the “Maps As Art” topic. Special prize provided by Clusterpoint is an Apple Watch for each member of the selected winning team.
Submission deadline: July 20. So, you have still almost 2 weeks to build your idea and submit it!
Our new sponsor Intexsys is looking for PHP Developer and DevOps.
Accenture is looking for:
– Office365/Azure Cloud Integration Specialist,
– Experienced Business Analyst,
– Sharepoint Developer
Autentica is looking for Geographic Information Systems developers.
Check also other career opportunities at Autentica!
Evolution Gaming – world leading on-line Live casino provider is looking for frontend and server side IT professionals for new game and feature development. We are providing excellent work conditions, challenging projects, friendly and professional colleagues.
– JavaScript/HTML5 Developer for Mobile Games,
– Java Developer,
– Scala Developer
and more positions you can find at the same page by scrolling down.
Now Evolution Gaming is located in the A+ class office building in the very heart of the Riga – Citadeles iela 2.
Game Insight is looking for:
– C++ Game Developer,
– Unity Developer,
– Game Server Developer,
– Game AQ/Producer.
Check out ALSO Cloud product and join their Dev Team at Riga!
Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have some drinks and snacks:
Announcement of Mobile focused 32nd DevClub.lv
Hi!
Don’t be afraid to build next big mobile thing. Even if you know, that many others failed. Remember, you need 3 things: Inspiration, Realisation and Analytics.
Our Mobile oriented event will cover them all, so be prepared!
Agenda for Mobile focused 32nd DevClub.lv at June 18th 18:30 at Microsoft Latvia office (Zaļā iela 1):
- Andrey Zhdanov from Transport LV: In Riga will talk about How to motivate yourself and build your first app.
This talk is about my experience. I will tell you about my path from entering university till defending bachelor degree and receiving highest grade for my first app. This talk won’t be technical and I will try to convince you to build your own app which could improve different aspects of your life. So, all you need to make your life better is to find what pisses you off and… and rest you will hear on my session.
(Language — Russian)
Tags: Mobile application, iOS, Motivation, Non-technical, User experience
Andrey Zhdanov is a Xamarin iOS Developer at C.T.Co, currently involved in the most innovative and interesting start-up among productivity apps.
- Aleksejs Mjaliks from Mobilly will give a talk “Developing an app for a popular service”.
Mobilly is a popular mobile payment service. A team constantly works on new features to offer customers. But sometimes things go really wrong…
This talk will cover lessons we have learned in a hard way, when the effects become the defects.
(Language — Latvian)
Tags: Mobile, FinTech
Aleksejs Mjaliks is a mobile app developer with many years experience developing apps for iOS and Android. He has developed apps for popular services like Mobilly, 1188 and others. He is also a developer behind Fearless Wheels – a game for iOS devices.
- Nikita Tihonovs from IntechSystems will give a talk “Newly released app: tap-tap-tap or crap?”
You’ve released your app and it doesn’t sell? You are just wondering in the dark, updating it and still no success? You are screwed if you do not analyze your data! Examining the reasons for crashes and why people think it sucks will alleviate your suffering.
(Language — English)
Tags: Mobile, Analytics, iOS, Android, Google Analytics, Crashlytics
Nikita Tihonovs is Product Owner at IntechSystems and co-founder @multimerch.com.
Past – Head of Online Marketing & Senior Project Manager at Dukascopy Swiss Bank
Evolution Gaming – world leading on-line casino provider is looking for:
– JavaScript/HTML5 Developer for Mobile Games,
– Java Developer,
– Scala Developer
and more positions you can find at the same page by scrolling down.
Now Evolution Gaming is located in the A+ class office building in the very heart of the Riga – Citadeles iela 2.
Game Insight is looking for:
– C++ Game Developer,
– Unity Developer,
– Game Server Developer,
– Game AQ/Producer.
Accenture is looking for Project Manager.
Check out ALSO Cloud product and join their Dev Team at Riga!
Check your career opportunities at Autentica!
Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have some drinks and snacks:
Announcement of DevOps focused 31st DevClub.lv
Hi,
Have you ever wondered what DevOps is about? What these people do and most how they help you to succeed in infrastructure architecture?
For all answers come to the DevOps focused 31st Devclub.lv which will be at 21st May 18:30 at Microsoft Latvia office (Zaļā iela 1)!
Agenda of DevOps focused Devclub.lv:
- Andrey Adamovich from Aestas/IT will give a talk “Enterprise Flight into DevOps space”
Enterprise adoption of DevOps is something that is already happening, but like with other trendy methodologies it happens quite differently with different level of success. This presentation accumulates speaker`s experience in helping different size organizations to implement DevOps initiatives and gives interesting real life examples: war stories, jokes, myths.
During last years we accumulated a lot of experience helping our clients automating their JVM projects starting from automated deployments and ending with fully automated production infrastructure configuration.
(Language – English)
Tags: Enterprise, DevOps, Lean, Startup
Andrey Adamovich is a software craftsman with many years of experience in different lifecycle phases of software creation. Andrey`s love is JVM ecosystem. In recent years, he tries to apply JVM goodness to DevOps initiatives his company is implementing for several clients. He is one of the authors of Groovy 2 Cookbook as well as frequent speaker at local communities and conferences.
- Anton Kasperovich from AXIOMA will talk about “Automate everything with Ansible”
I will share my experience how to grow from manual setup of each application, service or server to one command setup on multiple servers. I will tell about isolation for developer’s workspace, automatization and application deployment. This will be useful for developers regardless of platform or language.
(Language – Russian)
Tags: Ansible, Vagrant, DevOps, Deployment, Server provisioning
Anton Kasperovich – 10 years experience of development, last year focused on DevOps, as a Senior Team Lead in company, helped implement automation on all stages. - Edgars Biezaitis from Accenture Latvia will give a talk “Docker. What`s all the buzz about Docker”
For some time all the talks have been about Docker and how hot the technology is right now, so let`s have a look what it`s all about. I will share my experience so far and the future holds for Docker.
(Language – English)
Tags: Docker
Edgars Biezaitis – DevOps engineer. Working with tools like Docker, Puppet, Groovy, Gradle.
– C++ Game Developer,
– Unity Developer,
– Game Server Developer,
– Game AQ/Producer
Accenture Latvia is looking for:
– Devops enigneer/configuration specialist,
– Senior Java developer,
– Java architect.
EvolutionGaming – world leading on-line Live casino provider is looking for:
– JavaScript/HITML5 Developer for Mobile Games,
– Java Developer,
– Product Business Analyst
and more positions you can find at the same page by scrolling down.
Autentica is looking for talented PL/SQL developers. Check also other career opportunities at Autentica.
Clusterpoint has completed its first software developer challenge Clusterpoint challenge 2015 and the jury awarded:
1st place – Saeimas stenogrammas
2nd place – Media Barometer
3rd place – Deino News Aggregator
Thanks for participation to all DevClub members who joined the contest and stay tuned for upcoming events!
Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have some drinks and snacks:
Announcement of Start-up focused XXX DevClub.lv
Hi,
Are you passionate to build your own start-up or you`ve already started your journey? Don`t make the same mistake as others did, learn from their experience!
Gain knowledge in what might await you around the start-up corner at Start-up focused XXX DevClub.lvat 16th April 18:30 at Microsoft Latvia office (Zaļā iela 1)!
Agenda of Start-up focused XXX DevClub.lv:
- Oleg Bogdanov from Evolution Latvia will give a talk "My startup experience and lesson learned"
In my talk I would like to show number startup in area of Financial, Social, Marketing, Mobile, Gaming and Gaming startup I participated, its outcomes and lesson learned. Covering old and new way of startups, pitching, rising funds, accelerators and startup toolbox.
(Language – English)
Tags: Lean startupOleg Bogdanov – 18 years of extensive IT product/project management experience in software development field. Successfully managed the implementation of enterprise systems for internet payments, internet gaming/gambling, re-insurance and mobile.
- Ilgvars Jēcis from ByerDeck will give a talk "Startup Journey: from first line of code to first paying customer". I will share my experience on building a startup for almost 2 years – a journey from the first line of code to the first paying customer. I will give opinionated view of things that worked really well and things that failed for us at ByerDeck and why startups is not all unicorns and rainbows.
- (Slides – English, Speach – Latvian)
Tags: Startups, Continious Delivery, CI, Cloud, AnsibleIlgvars Jēcis is a CTO & co-founder of ByerDeck. They are a small startup trying to change the way complex B2B sales are done. They use bunch of tools like Java, Groovy, Javascript, Angular, Mongo, Ansible etc.
- Martin Villig from Taxify will talk about "Challenges when expanding multi-platform Taxify mobile apps to multiple countries". Nowdays many "real life" processes move to mobile apps. Taxify is mobile app allowing easy & fast taxi ordering compared to calling taxi dispatchers. Taxify currently operates in Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania and four other countries. What have been the challenges when developing multi-platform mobile apps and same time launching services in multiple countries.
(Language – English)
Tags: startup, taxify, business development, expansion, engineering, mobile, appsMartin Villig is a co-founder of Taxify, leading taxi booking application in Northern-Europe, with over 250`000 users in eight countries. Martin is also helping actively Estonian and Baltic startup community, being co-founder of Estonian Startup Leaders Club and Garage48 Foundation.
Taxify is a simple mobile app that puts you in charge of taxi ordering, choose taxis by price, distance or car model. After confirming your order, you will see taxi arriving on the map. Taxify works in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Tbilisi and beyond.
NB! Taxify launched "crazy" discount campaign in Riga, Eco class taxis just €0,19/km, cheaper than public transport! Give it a try and invite your friends!
Clusterpoint has extended deadline for submissions to developer contest – Clusterpoint Challenge 2015 – until April 20. There are almost two more weeks to develope your application which uses Clusterpoint Cloud Service, submit it and qualify for finals to win EUR 3000 cash prize! For additional info, visit Clusterpoint Challenge website.
Did you know about Labs of Latvia ? It is a startup community platform providing information from and about Latvian startup scene to the world.
Join with your IT startup BizSpark.com to get all Microsoft software/development tools, free cloud services up to 750$/month and access to business and technical support from Microsoft..
Autentica is looking for talented Java developers. Check also other career opportunities at Autentica.
Clusterpoint challenge
Clusterpoint introduces a new challenge for software developers with total prize fund of EUR 6000 !!!
All what you have to do is:
– register for the contest,
– build your app with Clusterpoint,
– submit it until 12.04.2015
– and Win – 1st place will get EUR 3000, 2nd – EUR 2000 and 3rd – EUR 1000
The official start of the contest is the next Monday, March 23, but for all of DevClub.lv members we can secretly tell that you can apply already today: Clusterpoint challenge.