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RSA Europe 2010 Press Registration Open

by kriggins on July 20, 2010

RSA Europe 2010 has opened press registration. The registration page can be reached here.
-Kevin

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RSA 2010/Security BSides Recap – Day 02

by kriggins on March 13, 2010

I really intended to get this out earlier this week, but me o’ my has this been a busy week.
Anyway, day 2 at RSA 2010/Security BSides started in the reverse order of day1. I went to sessions at RSA first and then tottered over to Security BSides for the afternoon.
My day 1 recap can be [...]

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SchmooCon 2010 Streaming Live for Free

by kriggins on February 5, 2010

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I meant to mention this again earlier this week, but forgot to. ShmooCon will be live streaming the entire event this year. The conference starts today at 3:00 EDT.
If you are not familiar with ShmooCon, here is a tidbit from the conference website:
Different • ShmooCon is an annual East coast hacker convention hell-bent on [...]

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Vote For My #BSidesSF Talk

by kriggins on February 1, 2010

I have submitted a topic for consideration for Security BSides San Francisco 2010 which happens concurrently with RSA.
For those not familiar with Security BSides, the following is from the website:

What is BSides?
BSides is an ad-hoc gathering of information security types born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. [...]

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I am very pleased to announce that my Peer2Peer session submission for RSA 2010 was accepted.
Here is the definition of a Peer2Peer session from RSA in case you are not familiar with them:
Have a security issue you would like to discuss with your peers? Want to share your experiences with a new technology? Care [...]

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RSA Europe 2009 – Day 3 Recap

by kriggins on October 25, 2009

The final day of RSA Europe 2009 was particularly special to me since it was my speaking debut at an RSA function.
About 20 minutes before I was due to go on I tweeted "6 VMs, a slide deck and me typing...easy peasy ." Surprisingly enough, it was easy peasy. I got through the deck, [...]

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RSA Europe 2009 – Day 2 Recap

by kriggins on October 22, 2009

Day 2's recap is going to be rather short and for that I apologize. I spent a good portion of the day tweeking and twiddling with my presentation. My presentation went well. No technical failures and I got all my points across. I would have been happier with it being a little smoother, but over [...]

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RSA Europe 2009 – Day 1 Recap

by kriggins on October 21, 2009

Yesterday was the first day of RSA Europe 2009 and I enjoyed it a great deal.
I ran into Brian Honan first thing in the morning and Craig Balding shortly thereafter.
I attended both opening keynotes and they were well done.
I particularly enjoyed Hugh Thompson's presentation.  He spoke about gateway data. This is data, that by itself, [...]

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RSA Europe 2009 Security Bloggers Meetup Recap

by kriggins on October 21, 2009

Last night was the RSA Europe 2009 Security Bloggers Meetup. It was held at the Fountains Abbey Pub in London, UK and was a complete success.
Dale and I showed up at the pub at 6:00 to start setting up. With the help of Melanie from eclat marketing, we were able to get everything ready on [...]

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The Security Bloggers Meetup is Just Around the Corner

by kriggins on September 23, 2009

Hard to believe that RSA Europe 2009 and  the Security Bloggers Meetup is just around the corner. We have officially passed the less than one month mark.
On the news front, we have secured a venue. We have the second floor of a pub reserved for us so we can talk about securing that and breaking [...]

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