March – April Events

After a quiet start for the year (and keeping up with my promise to try and cut down on travel) we are fast approaching exciting times. March will have a couple of great events I’m really looking forward to, and April packs a really great conference and training. So, without further adue:

DC9723 kicking off 2012 – March 13th

We’ve been having some issues in the local DCG with a venue, and after 3 months of delayed meetups we have finally settled into what looks like a fantastic venue. It’s called “The Library”, and true to its name it is one of the public libraries in Tel-Aviv. Renovated, and retrofitted to accommodate a shared workspace for entrepreneurs and small startups, it overlooks one of the more beautiful views of the Tel-Aviv coastline, and is located at the heart of the city – right next to tons of bars and hangouts.

Furthermore, for this inauguration meetup for 2012, we are proud to host Brad Templeton of Singularity University. I’m guessing it’s mostly kismet/karma that brought us together, but it couldn’t have been a more fitting match for this meetup. To complement Brad’s talk and discussion, we’ll have a great friend of mine – Keren Elazari who will discuss the past, present and future of the CyberPunk culture. Really can’t wait for this one to happen.

Link to The Library’s meetup for registration and more information.

Hackcon – March 26th-29th

One of the cons that were on my “hit-list” for a while. Having being recommended by close friends who already spoke there, I will be heading to lovely Oslo for the aptly named HackCon (yeah, I know… Oslo in March may not be _that_ lovely, but…).

With a great speaker lineup, and a website that absolutely refuses to be in English (google translate mandatory as my Norwegian is a bit rusty), this one is shaping up to be an experience!

Link to the program (which fortunately is mostly in English 🙂 )

Source Boston (Training + Conference) April 16th-19th

What can I say about Source? One of my personal favorites, with a personal “track record” of a couple of Barcelonas and soon to be a couple of Bostons. Fantastic attendance and audience, great speaker lineup, content that mixes business and technology like a fine cocktail. And this year is even more special, as I am fortunate enough to be able to bring our Red Team Training to Boston. Chris Nickerson and myself have ran this already once in Colombia last year, and the results are still resonating through Cali :-). We got some great feedback from both business as well as technical people who attended the one-day workshop in Cali, and will be bringing an even bigger, even better 2-day training session to Boston.

Expect a hands-on, no-bullshit couple of days. Expect to be able to pick locks (EVERYONE who is in our class will end up picking at least a 4-pin lock), gather intelligence, social engineer, build threat models, understand surveillance and counter-surveillance, and much more. Expect this not to be just a dull “click-click-click” classroom session. Do not expect us to be gentle on you – the people who attack your company won’t be either. Ready to take the plunge and move up from pentesting to the real-thing? Go register: http://www.sourceconference.com/boston/training.asp

And after having “fun” with friends (don’t ask what happens when I get to spend more than 10 mintes with Nickerson…), it will be off to the conference itself. Another rock-star lineup, from Dan Geer to Michelle Klinger, from Ally Miller to Chris Gates and Zack Lanier, and many more that I apologize in advance for missing here. This is the ultimate AppSec-Tech-Business throw-down in the east coast.

Full schedule is here.


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