Greetings and solicitations! We're pleased as punch to announce the 2nd annual Security BSides Austin 2011: Keep Security Weird! Planning is well underway for this year's event, which will be held March 11-12 in Austin, TX, conveniently during the same time SXSW Interactive (a major developer conference). One of our primary objectives in hosting opposite SXSW is to provide FREE appsec training and presentations to developers who are in town for the event. Our long-term goal is to become an officially sanctioned SXSW event.
To make this event as outstanding as possible, we need your help! Here's how: * Speak! The CFP is open. Please register and submit your talk, or just leave a comment if you don't want to register on the site. * Attend! Register to attend at http://bsidesaustin2011.eventbrite.com/ * Sponsor! BSides events are free to attendees, which means we rely exclusively on sponsors. If you're willing to contribute, please drop us a note and we'll follow-up. Sponsorship is a great way to make a low-cost investment in the industry while getting your name out there and associated with one of the hottest events around! In addition to traditional talks and unconference sessions, we are also in the process of setting-up an "AppSec Guerrilla Camp" track where free hands-on workshops will be provided on appsec topics. These 1-2 hour sessions will be technical in nature and specifically oriented to developers. More information is available from the official event website: http://www.keepsecurityweird.org/ Please feel free to contact me directly (off-list) if you have questions or are interested in helping out! Thank you, -ben -- Benjamin Tomhave, MS, CISSP tomh...@secureconsulting.net Blog: http://www.secureconsulting.net/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/falconsview LI: http://www.linkedin.com/in/btomhave [ Random Quote: ] "Computers are like very dumb people, but they're very fast at being dumb," says Jason Hong, a professor at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII). Washington Post (10/7/07 p.M01) "This Is Your Life: As Determined by Confounding Identity-Protection Safeguards" By Monica Hesse _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. Follow KRvW Associates on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates _______________________________________________
