This post is part of the information security communities project.
Hey everyone!
My Name is Steven McGrath, and as a security professional local to the Chicago area, I thought it would be best to share a list of events that I am familiar with in the area:

Chicago 2600 - Chicago 2600 is an informal gathering of [...]

This post is part of the information security communities project, and was guest blogged by Stacy Thayer, the founder and executive director of SOURCE Conference.
The East Coast is home to some of the world’s leading computer security professionals. The computer security industry has been active for many years and is now experiencing rapid growth. [...]

This post was guest blogged by Tom of spylogic.net.
If you are in the Cleveland, Ohio area and a security professional be sure to check out the other security bloggers that are located in our area:

Security Second Thoughts
The Security Shoggoth
Securi-D

Even if you are not from Cleveland, check them out!
Matt and I are also on Twitter. [...]

Because I maintain the information security events calendar, I often get asked about local information security events. If I were to add all the local events that I know about, it would fill the calendar with a ton of entries, many of them not applicable to the users. I might start another calendar only for [...]

Yesterday WhiteHat Security had a luncheon at Le Meridien Hotel in San Francisco. Trey Ford presented on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard section 6.6. And Jeremiah Grossman presented a solution to reduce vulnerability exposure time by virtual patching with F5 Big-IP equipment.
I took video of both presentations, but YouTube no longer accepts [...]