Events
Community Book Club: Countdown to Zero Day
Join The Cyber Guild for an evening of connection, conversation, and career growth.
Cybersecurity leaders, Rick Howard and Kim Zetter will discuss Kim’s renowned book Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon, followed by networking and refreshments.
Come for the educational insights, stay for the cyber community!
Date & Time:
📆Date: November 10, 2026
🕒Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Location:
Honor Brewing Co.
42604 Trade West Dr.
Sterling, VA
Award-winning investigative journalist and author who has covered cybersecurity and national security for more than 15 years — first as a staff writer for WIRED and more recently as a freelance writer for New York Times Magazine, Politico, Washington Post, WIRED and others. She has repeatedly been voted one of the top ten security journalists in the U.S. by security professionals and her journalism peers and has broken numerous stories about cyberwarfare, cyberespionage, government surveillance, and election security. She is author of an acclaimed book on cyberwarfare called Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon about a sophisticated and covert computer virus launched by the U.S. and Israel to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program. The book was chosen for the Marine Corps Commandant’s Professional Reading List and is required reading for many graduate-level university courses. In addition to writing for other publications, she publishes original content through her own site — Zero Day — focusing on stories at the intersection of cybersecurity and national security. In 2025 she testified to the U.S. Congress about threats to critical infrastructure. She is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University teaching a graduate-level course on cyber operations and how nations project power in cyberspace.
Rick is the CEO of the Cybercanon Project, an all-volunteer nonprofit seeking to be the Infosec Community’s first source for curated and timeless cybersecurity wisdom. His prior jobs include Chief Security Officer and podcast host at The Cyberwire (a cybersecurity podcasting network), CSO for Palo Alto Networks (a security vendor), CISO for TASC (government contractor), GM for iDefense (A commercial cyber threat intelligence service at Verisign), Global SOC Director for Counterpane (one of the original MSSPs), and Chief of the U.S. Army’s Computer Emergency Response Team where he coordinated network defense, network intelligence and network attack operations for the Army’s global network. He was one of the founding organizers of the Cyber Threat Alliance (an ISAC for security vendors) and he is one of the co-founders of the Cybercanon Project; a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for cybersecurity books. He is an advisor to Tidal Cyber (a startup that operationalizes the MITRE ATT&CK framework), the Center for Internet Security (a nonprofit setting cyber benchmarks), and Resilience (a security vendor that forecasts risk using insurance data). Rick holds a Master of Computer Science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School and an engineering degree from the US Military Academy. He taught computer science at the Academy from 1993 to 1999 and is a seminar instructor at Carnegie Mellon University’s CISO-Executive Program teaching a bi-annual module on Cybersecurity First Principles. He has published one book on cybersecurity and has been the executive editor for two others.
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