Collaborate Disseminate
Here is my wrap-up for the first edition of BSidesAthens. There are more and more BSides events organized across the world and the Greek capital has now one! It was also a good opportunity to spend the weekend in this nice city. Grigorios Fragkos kicked off the event a few
[The post BSidesAthens 2016 Wrap-Up has been first published on /dev/random]
Chester joins this week’s episode of our security podcast all the way from Austin, Texas…enjoy! Continue reading Live from BSides in Austin, Texas [Chet Chat Podcast 238]
Hello again readers! I had the pleasure of speaking about the Live Response Collection at the inaugural Bsides Charm event held this past weekend. I am working on getting some new features and functionality added to the next release which I hope t… Continue reading Live Response Collection slides from Bsides Charm
Hello again readers! I had the pleasure of speaking about the Live Response Collection at the inaugural Bsides Charm event held this past weekend. I am working on getting some new features and functionality added to the next release which I hope t… Continue reading Live Response Collection slides from Bsides Charm
A few folks have asked me about my roles on the advisory board for Intelligent Defence and as a judge for RSA’s new crowdsourced track. I’m often thought of as “Mr. BSides”, which is unfair to a lot of people who do a lot more than I do to build and sustain the Security BSides movement and community, and unfair to the thousands of organizers, volunteers, speakers, sponsors, and participants who make BSides what it is. This also overlooks the fact that I have long been engaged with a variety of groups and events, and I work in the security industry.
The short version of the story is this:
Two big events are listening to their attendees and responding to their audiences’ requests, and they asked me to be involved. As someone who has pushed for better content, conversations, and community engagement in numerous events and organizations over the years I jumped at the opportunities; I would have to be a much bigger hypocrite than I already am to decline the requests.
Of course I am watching to see if these new programs have any impact on the local security and hacker communities, but the nearby BSides San Francisco and BSides London events have a very different vibe from RSA and Infosecurity Europe, and other events such as 44Con are at other times of the year. My hope is that the new programs will expand the much-needed conversations about information security and security research and help grow the security community, that’s why I’m involved.
Jack
A few folks have asked me about my roles on the advisory board for Intelligent Defence and as a judge for RSA’s new crowdsourced track. I’m often thought of as “Mr. BSides”, which is unfair to a lot of people who do a lot more than I do to build and sustain the Security BSides movement and community, and unfair to the thousands of organizers, volunteers, speakers, sponsors, and participants who make BSides what it is. This also overlooks the fact that I have long been engaged with a variety of groups and events, and I work in the security industry.
The short version of the story is this:
Two big events are listening to their attendees and responding to their audiences’ requests, and they asked me to be involved. As someone who has pushed for better content, conversations, and community engagement in numerous events and organizations over the years I jumped at the opportunities; I would have to be a much bigger hypocrite than I already am to decline the requests.
Of course I am watching to see if these new programs have any impact on the local security and hacker communities, but the nearby BSides San Francisco and BSides London events have a very different vibe from RSA and Infosecurity Europe, and other events such as 44Con are at other times of the year. My hope is that the new programs will expand the much-needed conversations about information security and security research and help grow the security community, that’s why I’m involved.
Jack
Another year is gone, and it was a pretty amazing one for Security BSides. It is hard to believe that this adventure began five and a half years ago, with the first event happening in July of 2009. BSides has exploded since then, there have been a total of 167 BSides events globally- with 58 in 2014 alone. BSides have now been held in 74 cites in 16 countries, on every continent except Antarctica. 2014 brought BSides to more than a dozen new cities across the world, including the first events in Asia. Some of 2014’s new BSides cities included Dubai (UAE), Hyderabad (India), Singapore, Bogota (Colombia), Reykjavík (Iceland), Hamburg (Germany), and many across the US.
Check out the “World of BSides” map showing all BSides cities:
There are already well over a dozen BSides events on the calendar for 2015, with many more in the planning stages. The latest information on all BSides events can always be found on the BSides wiki.
BSides is a stunning success because of the huge community of organizers, volunteers, speakers, sponsors, and participants who have come together to make something amazing. The “What BSides Means to Me” page on the wiki has some fantastic insights into what drives us to sustain and grow BSides, it is worth a read.
Jack