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The Value of Offensive Conferences
From: dave aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 10:48:22 -0500
It's no secret that in order to get ahead, you cannot send your technical people to BlackHat and Defcon. That's where you send your sales engineers, which is a sad thing, since I really enjoyed the earlier days of BH and DefCon, but the smaller conferences are a world ahead when it comes to the technical innovations in information security that are going affect you, if you're doing any kind of decent job at security already. The real questions is why. And part of it, as I ruminate on this while we work hard to bring you INFILTRATE 2017, is exactly what makes small conferences so painful: There's no incentive for anyone to come to do MARKETING. If you have some sort of brand name bug and you want to release it for maximum media attention and profit, then BH is the way to go. All the talks at BH are about building reputation. Talks at the smaller conferences are about sharing information with your peers, which BY DEFAULT is going to get you further ahead on the situational awareness curve. (F.E. Are we about to see a resurgence in Wifi hacking? Andres Blanco's talk is of particular importance in that area...) In other words: If you have a bug, go to BH or Defcon, and if you have a bugclass/attack surface you're exploring, you go give a talk at INFILTRATE or Syscan or ReCon or any of the smaller regional cons. -dave _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunityinc com https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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