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Conference Strategy vs Tactics
From: dave aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:44:05 -0400
Someone asked me yesterday "Why do INFILTRATE? Why did you even start it?" And the answer was more complex than I could say at the moment. Strategy always is, because narratives are linear and strategy is by definition a complex tree of weighted possibilities. But I want to say a few things about it, now that INFILTRATE is a thing that will clearly last. I have this byline coming out shortly, one of the ones I consider important: a polemic against the DHS deciding to indict the Iranians who hacked that dam in NY. I mention this only because the people who came to INFILTRATE are those who would vociferously agree with that position - a group ill-represented by other conferences. In other words, INFILTRATE is the conference for people with one foot on the "escalatory ladder" as Nate Fick's keynote <https://vimeo.com/161996596> would put it. That's not to say it's all Government contractors, although certainly like any conference, there are some there. But your modern mega-software-corp has a team on fuzzing bigger than most startups these days. Hearing about how to turn all that fuzz-crash data into actionable exploit primitives is boring to people who don't have the right capabilities and mindset - which was exactly Sean Heelan's talk. At some level, INFILTRATE was, of course, just about making a conference that doesn't suck in all the ways other conferences can suck - and the INFILTRATE crowd is noticeably older than that at almost any conference I've been to other than, say S4, which is full of industrial engineers. We like the music quieter so we can get onto the business of talking about low level exploit engineering with people we rarely see. :) And to bring us back to Badlock - conferences are at some level MITM attacks on our industry. Why should we let a magazine company decide what direction the conversation in our industry should go? (BlackHat is owned by UBM) Anyways, -dave
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