Blog Posts Tagged with "Conferences"
Who Are You Preaching to Anyway?
May 16, 2012 Added by:Neira Jones
Hard core security conferences continue to happen and continue to be successful, and long may it continue. We still need the techies to make sure we have the right tech to support the people and processes in our businesses. We also need the techies to try and keep ahead of the bad guys...
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Security BSides Detroit Announces its June Schedule
May 15, 2012 Added by:Steven Fox, CISSP, QSA
The BSides conference is billed as a un-conference where practitioners go for clear unfiltered view of the industry. The conference features two tracks and thirty-two talks of local and national experts on a variety technical and non-technical subjects...
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Making Things Worse by Asking all the Wrong Questions
May 14, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Blaming OWASP and developers for not adopting secure coding is silly. Uuntil the business cares about security, and developers have an incentive to write more secure code, tools and simple to use transparent technologies like that which OWASP provides won't get utilized...
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Are We Reaching Security Conference Overload?
May 14, 2012 Added by:Tom Eston
We have more security and hacking conferences than ever, but now there is also more overlap. These choices can make it harder for researchers to present new and relevant content and also tough to decide which conferences to attend from a attendee perspective...
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Aren’t all Security Professionals Evangelists?
May 09, 2012 Added by:Andrew Weidenhamer
I often wonder is Evangelist the right title for some individuals. Considering that the main audience for a “Security Evangelist” is the security community, I’m not entirely sure how much conversion is actually happening as we all understand the importance of security...
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Infosec Island Seeks Industry Partners for Security Conferences
May 07, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Through a combination of custom content publication that features products and services, video interviews with company personnel onsite, and traditional banner ad campaigns, organizations can better leverage the impact of attendance and participation at key industry events...
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Fear and Loathing in Infosec: The Black Mass
May 02, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Gesticulating and making odd sounds, the hackers milled and jerked around like some strange species of black raptors. Babbling incoherently about arcane knowledge in the hopes of one upping the other hapless technoweens in the room....
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SEALs, Spies, Security, and Celebrity
May 02, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
When the largest security companies in the world have had their source code stolen by hackers, our present security model is broken. Matt Brazil, a former U.S. embassy commercial officer in Beijing, will show executives how to survive in China without losing their secrets...
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On the Value of Security Conferences
April 19, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
What's interesting is the question of business value. Management sends employees to 'security conferences' to learn something and bring it back to the organization. But what value do the ever-increasing number of security conferences provide as stand-alone events?
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Security BSides Chicago 2012 Presentation Lineup
April 19, 2012 Added by:Security BSides
Each BSides is a community-driven framework for building events for and by information security community members. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. It is where conversations for the next-big-thing are happening. You don’t want to miss it...
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Second Annual Cyber Security Summit (Prague) Write-up
April 16, 2012 Added by:Robert M. Lee
An important aspect of the conference was the ability to network with people from a wide variety of sectors. Establishing new connections, sources of information, and building friendships opens up avenues for much needed information sharing. Emphasis must be placed on education...
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Top 5 Things Learned at the SANS Mobile Device Security Summit
March 20, 2012 Added by:Tom Eston
Having a lineup of great speakers really made the summit flow as well as it did. What I liked most about this event was that there were plenty of “real world” talks on how enterprises are setting up and managing mobile deployments…real “in the trenches” types of talks...
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What Do You Call a BlackHat in Amsterdam?
March 16, 2012 Added by:Javvad Malik
It was my first BlackHat and I’d agreed to cover the event for Infosec Island. Those in attendance would have seen me with Jim Shields of Twist & Shout lugging around camera’s lights, microphones trying to convince people to say a few words to the camera...
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Security BSides Charleston 2012: Operating In-Security
March 16, 2012 Added by:Security BSides
A combination of students, professionals, geeks and tinkerers gathering to discuss Information Security, hear awesome talks and bring security into our everyday lives. Our mission is to provide an inclusive, inspiring and motivational environment to discuss and collaborate...
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A Post BSidesSF and RSA Post
March 15, 2012 Added by:Jack Daniel
The RSA Conference was the RSA Conference. It was better than the past few years as far as content. It is not the place for cutting edge research, and the expo is all about selling security products. It can be disillusioning to see the crass commercial side of our business...
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Don't Miss the TECHEXPO Cyber Security Hiring Event
March 14, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Are you a Cyber Warrior and seeking a new employment opportunity? Don't miss the TECHEXPO Cyber Security hiring event March 20th. Bring resumes and interview for the many opportunities, and learn from our guest speakers William M. Jimenez, Paul de Souza, and Richard Bejtlich...
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- Follow Up to the Out of Band Authentication Post
- Skype Malware Campaign Spreading Poison Ivy Trojan
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- Dutch MoD Innovation Competition 2012: CYBER Operations 2.0
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- Security Automation by Hand - Batch/Bash/FOR
- Who Are You Preaching to Anyway?
- Some Observations on Klout Scores
- Where Will the Buck Stop in Cloud Security?
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