Re: CanSecWest/core06 Vancouver April 3-7

2006-03-19 Thread paul dansing
This conference currently costs $1546 USD!  :-(

what moneybags loser is going to pay up so much just to go
to a conference?

buy yourself a nice computer, or hell, donate the money to
openbsd.org instead! :-D

drop a zero or two and it would be worth the trip


Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 8:45:30 PM, you wrote:

 The call for papers is now closed and the proposals have been reviewed
 for the CanSecWest/core06 Applied Technical Security Conference held
 on April 5-7 2006 at the Mariott Renaissance Harbourside in Vancouver,
 B.C. Canada.

 The selected submissions are :

An hour of Rap and Comedy about SAP - Steve Lord
Next Generation Sebek - Edward Balas - Indiana University
RF Bugsweeping - Tim Johnson - Technical Security Consultants Inc.
Magstripe Madness - Major Malfunction
Metasploitation (and a dash of IPS) - HD Moore - BreakingPoint
Carrier VoIP Security - Nico Fischbach - COLT
Attacking VoIP Networks - Hendrik Scholz - Freenet Cityline GmbH
Security Issues Related to Pentium System Management Mode - Looc Duflot
Advancements in Anonymous eAnnoyance - Christopher Abad - Cloudmark
Real Time Threat Mitigation Techniques - Josh Ryder - University of Alberta
Stunt Profiling: Securing a System While You Wait - Crispin Cowan - Novell
Visualizing Source Code for Auditing - Lisa Thalheim
Attacking Web Services - Alex Stamos, Scott Stender - iSEC Partners
Reverse Engineering Microsoft Binaries - Alexander Sotirov - Determina
Zen and the art of collecting and analyzing Malware - Fred Arbogast and
 Sascha Rommelfangen - S.E.S. Astra
How to test an IPS - Renaud Bidou - RADWare
Insiders View: Network Security Devices - Dennis Cox - BreakingPoint
More on Uninitialized Variables - Halvar Flake
Eric Byres - SCADA - BCIT
Panel Discussion - Vulnerability Commercialization
Terri Forslof, 3Com, Manager of Security Response
Michael Sutton iDefense Labs, Director of iDEFENSE Labs
Others TBA
Vendor Elevator Focus Groups
 David Meltzer, Cambia
 Ofir Arkin, Insightix
 Others TBA
Lightning Talks

 Some talks from the PacSec/core05 conference in Tokyo in November and
 the EUSecWest/core06 conference in London during February were highly
 rated and have been invited for encore presentations at CanSecWest:

Attacking the IPv6 protocol suite - van Hauser - THC / n.runs GmbH
Protecting the Infrastructure - Jim DeLeskie  Danny McPherson - Teleglobe,
 Arbor Networks

 Security Masters Dojo Courses 
 April 3-5 Vancouver

Network Reconnaissance with Nmap 4 - Fyodor  Doug Hoyte
Network Vulnerability Scanning: Turning Nessus into Metasploit - Renaud
 Deraison  Nicolas Pouvesle
Reverse Engineering: Rapid Bug Discovery and Input Crafting - Halvar
Assembly for Exploit Writing - Gerardo Richarte
Advanced IDS Deployment and Optimization - Marty Roesch
Advanced Honeypot Tactics - Thorsten Holz
Mastering the network with Scapy - Philippe Biondi
Securing your critical Cisco network infrastructure - Nico Fischbach
Practical 802.11 WiFi (In)Security - Cidric Blancher
Bluetooth Auditing and Technology - Martin Herfurt, Adam Laurie, Marcel
 Holtmann

 Conference registration on line can be found at: 
 http://cansecwest.com/register.html

 Security Masters Dojo Vancouver registration can be found at
 http://cansecwest.com/dojo.html

 cheers,
 --dr



Re: CanSecWest/core06 Vancouver April 3-7

2006-03-19 Thread Diana Eichert
People that work for large enterprises, that's who.  Besides I believe it
includes the cost of tutorials if I'm not mistaken.

I know conferences that cost more.

diana

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, paul dansing wrote:

 This conference currently costs $1546 USD!  :-(

 what moneybags loser is going to pay up so much just to go
 to a conference?

 buy yourself a nice computer, or hell, donate the money to
 openbsd.org instead! :-D

 drop a zero or two and it would be worth the trip



Re: CanSecWest/core06 Vancouver April 3-7

2006-03-19 Thread Jason George
This conference currently costs $1546 USD!  :-(

what moneybags loser is going to pay up so much just to go
to a conference?

buy yourself a nice computer, or hell, donate the money to
openbsd.org instead! :-D

drop a zero or two and it would be worth the trip


Clearly you've never been to a DragosCon.

For what you can learn and who you could meet, it's actually a 
reasonably-priced event.  It's even cheaper if you commit early.

I've been a couple of times and would definitely go again if there were more 
talks like Eric Byres' upcoming presentation on SCADA.  The stuff that Halvar 
presents usually just makes my brain hurt.

It's a trade-off... I could go to a specialized ISA or IEEE event, spend less 
money on the conference, more money on travel and accomodations, and get less 
usable information, but haul in a dozen consulting leads.  Or I could go to 
Core, spend more money on registration, less on travel, have my head blown 
apart by all the next-gen ideas, and drink beer with a bunch of cyber-nerds at 
Brandy's.

--Jason