Event Related RSA Conference 2012 RSA Conference 2012: Stress and burnout in infosec careers- csoonline.com IT security professionals are experiencing extreme levels of stress and burnout, but they have few places to turn for help. RSA Conference Photos- tripwire.com Here are our photos from the RSA Conference 2012. Each day of the show, we asked [...]

. Here are the information security events in North America this month: AppSec USA 2010: September 7 -10 in Irvine The International Symposium on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec):  September 14 in Ottawa ISSA International Conference: September 15 – 17 in Atlanta The 13th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID): September 15 [...]

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 [...]

While I had a good time talking to vendors on the RSA expo floor, I had a better time running around trying to find cool SWAG (stuff we all get). I tried to stay away from tshirts, but I did end up getting a few of those too. Some of the cool / useful items [...]

I thought I had an excellent plan when attacking the massive number of RSA sessions available. My plan was to attend the sessions unique to RSA, mainly the business sessions because I already attend a handful of technical security conferences throughout the year. Here is a my original RSA schedule, and I none of them [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

There are two working Engima machines on the expo floor at RSA! And by working I mean you can punch in your own message on one machine, copy the cipher text, and find the other machine to decode it. Very cool. One of the devices is in the NSA booth, and I forgot where the [...]

I had a nice laugh when I saw "Cisco Recycling Center" at the StillSecure booth.

For this year’s RSA conference, I am registered as a blogger, which allowed me to get a press credential. This is my first year attending as press, but I’ve covered many other security events like Black Hat, Defcon, and CanSecWest as press. So from past experience, the conference would give away the same SWAG to [...]