Here is what's going on this month in the information security space: The Last HOPE: July 18 - 20 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security: July 23 - 25 USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT): July 28 Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET): July 28 USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec): [...]
I've been to seven other Black Hat events starting around the year 2000. So what makes me keep coming back? Here are my top 5 reasons to attend Black Hat USA.
The 2008 ShmooCon videos and presentations are now online! Do note that some of the videos are named incorrectly, but the folks at room362 mapped the proper videos to presentations. It looks like there were lots of interesting presentations at this year's ShmooCon, and I'm looking forward to reviewing the material. Some presentations that are [...]
Because Techno Security 2008 and the Access Data User's Conference was held during the same time as Hacker Halted, there were a decent amount of vendors on the expo floor. Most of the vendors were forensics oriented like Guidance and Access Data, but I was happy to see Core Security there. Even the NSA, FBI, [...]
This was my first time at the Hacker Halted conference, and it was quite enjoyable. I loved the venue, and the talks were informative. One major disappointment was that Howard Schmidt didn't talk as planned due to travel issues. It's not the conference's fault, but I thought his talk would be the highlight of [...]
Here are my notes from the third day of the Hacker Halted conference. An Ethical Hacker's Perspective to Network Access Control Antivirus software is just a checkbox to most companies Layered security is a must Ghosts in the Browser paper - Tons of drive by downloads Gartner said by the end of 2007, 75% of [...]
Here are my notes from the second day of the Hacker Halted conference. Inside the Storm Brandon Enright - Exposing Stormworm presentation Virtual Worlds - A Wild Frontier Or New World Order? NDU IRMC - Information Resources Management College Virtual worlds provide an easy environment for users to get profiled Many new virtual environments are [...]
Here are my notes from the first day of the Hacker Halted conference. Keynote Address - OSI Exposed & Examined Level 8 politics, level 9 religion, level 10 economics $200 per workstation is average for IT budget 10% of that budget should be the security budget at the least If no security budget, do one [...]
Here is what's going on this month in the information security space: Hacker Halted: June 1 - 3 GFIRST 2008: June 1 - 6 SANS WhatWorks in Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking Summit: June 2 - 3 SANS WhatWorks in Web Application Security Summit 2008: June 2 - 3 Applied Cryptography and Network Security 2008: [...]
Jeremiah Grossman recently did a short podcast on Help Net Security on his top security conferences. He didn't name one as the best, because each conference caters to all different sorts of people. Some are highly technical, some are more business related, and some are more underground. My question to you is which conference is [...]