Vendor parties during Black Hat USA is always interesting, because the conference is in Las Vegas. Here is a list of vendors that I know of that are throwing parties this year at Black Hat USA 2008.
Tuesday, August 5th

Qualys
Fortify

Wednesday, August 6th

Arbor Networks
MANDIANT
WASC / OWASP

Thursday, August 7th

Accuvant
Core Security
iSEC Partners
Microsoft

Saturday, August 9th

IOActive / StillSecure

Know of any [...]

What an amazing event put on by Jennifer Leggio and crew. I had a great time talking to other security bloggers, and the food was awesome. Thanks to Fortinet, Microsoft, and StillSecure for sponsoring the event.
Here is a video clip of the opening:

And here is a list of people (in no particular order) that I [...]

The WASC meetup was a few days ago at Jillian’s, and I had a blast. It was a great to have conversations with groups of like-minded people during the day, and not at a loud dark bar. Thanks to WhiteHat Security for sponsoring the event, and for the yummy food. Here are a few pictures [...]

With my ever growing RSA party list, my friends made me decide which party we should  attend, so I selected Microsoft’s party. I figured you can’t go wrong with a huge company, and it was at the Cartoon Art Museum. The current theme for the main exhibit was Sex and Sensibility, and it contained many [...]

I didn’t think my RSA vendor party list would get that much attention, but a few people reached out to me an told me about a few other parties.
The additional vendors throwing a party are: IOActive, Ingrian, Sourcefire, Nokia, Chosen Security, Aladdin, MANDIANT, SecureIT Alliance, IBM, Deloitte, IdentityTruth, Akibia, Check Point, and Infoblox. I [...]

MessageLabs threw a party tonight at the Varnish Gallery Bar, showcasing the computational art by Alex Dragulescu. There were six threat categories (viruses, spam, phishing, trojans, spyware, and malicious links) and all of the renderings were amazing.
MessageLabs provided Alex with the disassembled code, and Alex ran it through his program that analyzed the code, [...]

Now that I have my RSA schedule in place, I have to figure out what I am doing in the evenings. So far I’ve been invited to seventeen (17!) vendor parties. In no particular order, the list of vendors are: Blue Coat, MessageLabs, SenSage, ESET, Ping Identity, Microsoft, Secure Computing, WASC, F-Secure, Voltage, Commtouch, Porter [...]