Each week, we’ll highlight a major city in the US and cover the places and events you can go to in that area to get your security information fix. This post is part of the information security communities. The Bay Area scene is very active and covers a broad spectrum, so expect local professional groups [...]

Here are the information security events in North America this month: SANS Security West 2011: May 3 to May 13 in San Diego Bsides ROC: May 7 to May 8 in New York Secure 360: May 10 to May 12 in Saint Paul TakeDownCon: May 14 to May 20 in Dallas SANS Cyber Guardian: May [...]

. Here are the information security events in North America this month: Secure360: May 11 – 12 in St. Paul IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy: May 16 – 19 in Oakland CEIC 2010 (Computer and Enterprise Investigations Conference): May 24 – 27 in Summerlin SANS WhatWorks in Security Architecture Summit 2010: May 24 – [...]

Today at the Claremont Resort in Berkeley California, I attended the Web 2.0 Security and Privacy workshop. It was was sponsored by IEEE, whom just finished their Symposium on Security and Privacy yesterday. The papers for the Web 2.0 Security and Privacy workshop are now available, and can be found on the program page. Presentations [...]

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 [...]