Re: Knowledge Transfer

[Konrads Smelkovs <konrads.smelkovs () gmail com>]

Got metrics to back it up?

On Friday, 3 June 2016, dave aitel <dave () immunityinc com> wrote:

> From Spender's recent Keynote <https://grsecurity.net/SSTIC2016.pdf>:
> """
> Conferences poor method of knowledge transfer
>
>     Good method of making audience feel “knowledge” transfer
>
>     Accept that it’s basically show-and-tell, that understanding of a
> topic requires more than an hour, sometimes with weeks/months/years of
> background knowledge
>
> """
>
>
> As someone who helps run INFILTRATE <http://infiltratecon.com/> I want to
> point out that while I totally agree that conferences can be hard to use as
> knowledge transfer mechanisms, that they are getting better. In particular
> I want to point people towards this very long piece on how everything
> connects together, especially those of you who attended INFILTRATE:
> <http://cybersecpolitics.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-common-thread-fuzzing-bug-triage.html>
> http://cybersecpolitics.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-common-thread-fuzzing-bug-triage.html
>
> This is also true of training: I'd love to find a way to offer a continued
> education series based on the INFILTRATE classes. And I have another post
> coming out to connect more dots from INFILTRATE 2016 shortly. But Spender
> is right: Conferences, a mainstay of our community, can be too much about
> show and tell, and not enough about scientific progress. (That said, I
> think INFILTRATE is the best among them in that regards, of course. :))
>
> And we ARE offering the INFILTRATE training again both in NYC and
> (strangely enough!) Columbia MD
> <https://twitter.com/Immunityinc/status/738404651712798721>.
>
> -dave

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