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This year, Packetlabs is thrilled to be attending Atlantic Canada's premier cybersecurity conference: ATLSECCON 2025.

Whether you're attending or will be keeping your eye out for the top security-related takeaways, here's what you need to know:

What is ATLSECCON 2025?

ATLSECCON is a non-profit, volunteer-led information-security conference focusing on expanding the IT security knowledge pool. Since its inception, it has garnered a reputation as the "premiere knowledge repository for Atlantic Canada."

Those attending will:

• Hear from North America's top cybersecurity experts on the best way to evolve IT security strategies to counteract this year's most advanced threats

• Have the opportunity to network with a wide variety of industry providers

• Participate in track sessions relevant to organizations' most urgent security needs

Alongside aiding in the future of North America's cybersecurity, ATLSECCON also strives to empower positive change by supporting a range of charitable causes. For this year's cause, the Atlantic Security Conference has selected the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada as their charity of choice, with attendee donations being matched up to $5,000.

Packetlabs at the Atlantic Security Conference

As a CREST and SOC 2 Type II accredited penetration testing firm, Packetlabs’ best in class methodologies and 100% tester-driven security solutions go beyond industry standards. Our methodologies dig deeper into your existing security measures to deliver actionable results, business continuity, and long-term security roadmaps.

Packetlabs was founded on the belief that, in today’s ever-changing threat landscape, organizations–and the people who trust in them–deserve more than a VA scan. Today, we partner with SMBs and enterprises across all sectors and industries to provide award-winning, 360-degree cybersecurity exercises.

We offer several offerings that push the envelope on security–and guarantee full regulatory and cyber insurance compliance.

Our growing list of services include:

• DevSecOps: DevSecOps is integrated early in your development cycle and acts as an extension of your development team to flag vulnerabilities within your existing detected management systems

• Red Teaming: Red Teaming is a full-scope simulated attack designed to get a holistic review of the level of risk and vulnerabilities across people, processes, and tech in an organization

• Purple Teaming: Purple Teaming is our collaborative testing exercise where the Packetlabs red team works with your internal security operations team (or blue team) to bridge the gap between offensive techniques and response efforts

• Cyber Maturity Assessments: A Cyber Maturity Assessment supports the tactical direction of your cybersecurity strategy. As the first step in strengthening your security posture, this assessment generates the roadmap to strengthen your overall security program

• OT Assessments: OT Cybersecurity Assessments simulate the likelihood of an attacker reaching the control centre from an external and internal perspective with production-safe testing

• Ransomware Penetration Testing: A ransomware penetration test evaluates the preparedness and risk of a ransomware attack and identifies gaps in people, processes, and technology, to determine the likelihood and readiness for a ransomware attack

• Cloud Penetration Testing: Multiple perspectives help with strengthening your security posture. These include Cloud Penetration Testing, which simulates an attacker in the environment, and a Cloud Penetration Review, which provides insights into cloud-specific vulnerabilities originating from an insecure configuration. Each of these services can be conducted separately or, for maximum effectiveness, combined as an enhanced cloud security bundle

• Objective-based Penetration Testing: Following a preliminary penetration test, objective-based testing conducts a more advanced simulated cybersecurity attack. The test is conducted by persistent ethical hackers who deploy multiphase attacks to gain access to your organization's data so that you can discover gaps and vulnerabilities unique to your organization and test your ability to detect and respond to threat actor

• Application Security Testing: More targeted in scope than a regular pentest, application security testing uncovers vulnerabilities residing in your web and mobile apps. Application Security Testing actively explores your application from an attacker’s perspective

• The Packetlabs Portal, which enables you to quickly view findings, prioritize efforts, request retests after remediation, and monitor progress

• Infrastructure Penetration Testing: An infrastructure penetration testing assessment uncovers vulnerabilities in your IT and network systems and provides a tailored approach to each environment

Why ATLSECCON 2025?

Atlantic Canada has a skilled workforce and is a hub for global trading, making it a target for cyber threats. Reports show that:

• 70% of Canadians in the region have experienced a cybersecurity incident (up from 58% in 2020)

• Since 2023, identity theft and ransomware-related scams were the most common types of cyber crime

• Over 13% of local businesses have claimed to have been impacted by successful ransomware attacks

• The Canadian Anti-Fraud Center reported over 150,000 cases of fraud since January 2021, leading to roughly $600 million in losses

Due to this concentrated rate of sophisticated cyber crime, Atlantic Canada paves the way for cybersecurity improvements across not only North America, but the globe:

• The Cyber Center at Knowledge Park in New Brunswick, one of the region's most advanced networking and data fiber facility, is actively supporting innovation in critical infrastructure security

• A Centre of Excellence (COE) in Healthcare Cybersecurity is being established in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

• Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) offers specialized courses in cybersecurity and anti-money laundering

Our team looks forward to relaying the top takeaways from this year's presentations and track sessions.

Conclusion

Visit our team at Booth #35 at the Halifax Convention Center. We'll be there:

• Thursday, April 10, 2025 8:00AM – 4:30PM

• Friday, April 11, 2025 9:00AM – 3:00PM

Looking to stock up on cybersecurity-related resources ahead of the event? Download our case study today to learn more about how, in the fight against cyber crime, Offensive Security is Power: