RSA Schedule | Infosec Events

One thing that I really hate about multi track conferences, is that it takes me forever to determine what I want to see. And with the upcoming RSA conference, they didn’t make it easy with 20 tracks to choose from!

Here is the workflow that I used to figure out my RSA schedule. The first step was to see what sessions interested me, so I marked up the schedule booklet. Then I mapped all of those sessions by time in a text file. My final step was to re-read the session info, and determine which would be my primary and secondary sessions for that time slot. Yes, I could have used RSA’s online scheduler, but I felt the interface was clunky and slow. Where is sched.org when you need them?

Here is my current schedule for sessions:

Tuesday

1:30pm - 2:40pm - CONS105 - Internet banking challenges and banco do brasil experience
3pm - 3:50pm - BUS106 - What wall street thinks of security, redux OR
HT2106 - Breaking security systems - political, legal, and technical aspects
4:10pm - 5:20pm - HT2107 - Case notes from a vulnerability assessment of a banks web services
5:40pm - 6:30pm - DEF108 - Cross channel fraud - emerging attacks and challenges

Wednesday

8am - 8:50am - HT1201 - Sex, drugs, and cybercrime - go flux yourself OR
BUS201 - security information visualization
9:10am - 10:20am - EXP202 - A perspective of information security in the olympic games 2002-2008
10:40am - 11:50am - CASE203 - A detailed analysis of a control system cyber event

Thursday

8am - 8:50am - HT2301 - Espionage trojans - targeted attacks drive the next wave of malware
9:10am - 10:20am - HT1302 - Timing attacks for recovering entries from database engines
10:40am - 11:50am - HT1303 - Defeating obfuscation - methodologies and attack testing

Friday

9am - 9:50am - GOV401 - Will your web research land you in jail?
10:05am - 10:55am - HT2402 - Detection of beacon trojans and advanced data exfiltration techniques
11:10am - 12pm - HT1403 - Pharming via dns forgery (dns cache poisoning reloaded)

As you might have noticed, I still have conflicts at Tuesday 3pm and Wednesday 8am. Maybe you can help me decide which one to go to.