SECURITY CONFERENCES
Having attended the OWASP AppSec Europe 2008 conference in Gent mid May this year, I must say that some lectures gave me a lot of new ideas how all this is going to evolve.
Not only was there a great mix between different nationalities, the conference was the first of its kind that was professionally organized and was all about the topic secure web application and secure software.
Take in count that web applications are only a subset of software so the insecure pieces of code don't only reside on web apps but definitely also on the underlying software components like the OS. For the presentations, you can check them out here. Those Americans (Mark Curphey, Gary McGraw) really knew how to get the right level of interaction with the audience.
The social dinner and the musical performance in the "Patershol" area of ancient Gent made the conference also a fun event where people could enjoy themselves without having the talk about XSS attacks and SQL injections ;-)
Last week I attended the yearly ArcSight use conference in Washington DC. It's a great conference organized by ArcSight for it's customers and provides lectures, social activities (the boat party was really cool!) and plenty of networking possibilities. Compared with 2006, this years connect the dots edition really aimed towards an information/business conference where more companies are using the deployed SIEM infrastructures to create new business models.
It's interesting to see companies nowadays establishing a service offering to help enterprise customers define and deploy use cases by solving real-world business challenges associated with: data loss, theft, incident remediation, and government and industry regulatory compliance.
I'm also planning to attend the yearly hack.lu conference. A three days conference in Luxembourg, for bridging ethics and security in computer science. Mark in your agendas: October 22, 2008 – October 24, 2008 @ the Parc Hotel Alvisse. Check out the presentations outline here.
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