Re: informIT: Building versus Breaking

[Jeremy Epstein <jeremy.j.epstein () gmail com>]

The HOST program is about building open source security products,
evangelizing open source security, helping with government
certifications, etc.  It's not fundamentally about secure coding or
software assurance.

--Jeremy

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Steven M. Christey
> <coley () linus mitre org> wrote:
> > While I'd like to see Black Hat add some more defensive-minded tracks, I
> > just realized that this desire might a symptom of a larger problem: there
> > aren't really any large-scale conferences dedicated to defense / software
> > assurance.  (The OWASP conferences are heavily web-focused;
> I believe OWASP is moving towards Application Security in general. At
> the chapter meetings I attend, we were told the acronym is probably
> going to be changed to "Open Web and Application Security Project".
>
> > Dept. of Homeland Security has its software assurance forum and working
> > groups, but those are relatively small.)
> Homeland Security also has the HOST program, which partners with
> industry, http://www.cyber.st.dhs.gov/host/. I'm just mentioning it
> because its seems to be a bit more than a [low volume] forum.
>
> > If somebody built it, would anybody come?
> If the prices is right ;)
>
> Jeff
>
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