"Building" conferences (was: informIT: Building versus Breaking)

[Martin Gilje Jaatun <secse-chair () sislab no>]

Karen Goertzel wrote:

>  There are these:

>

>  ISC(2) Secure Software Conference Series - >

>  https://www.isc2.org/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?id=650

>

>  ESSoS - http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2012/

>

>  SecSE - http://www.sintef.org/secse

>

>  SSIRI - http://paris.utdallas.edu/ssiri11/


All conferences are not created equal - ESSOS, SecSE and SSIRI are all 
academic, peer-reviewed conferences/workshops, and probably do not have 
the same "sex appeal" as BlackHat. Even in academic communities it seems 
that there are few that appreciate the difference between "security 
features" and "secure features" (judging by some submissions we get to 
SecSE).


[...]
>  conferences. I'm in the process of updating some research on how and

>  where software security assurance is being taught by colleges and

>  universities, and what I'm finding is that the topic has been pretty

>  much marginalised into an aspect of information assurance - i.e., it's

>  being taught mostly to postgraduates who are majoring in IA and


I think you're right - to take our local university, NTNU; they have a 
course on software security, but it's an elective offered to 
postgraduates in the final year before they start their MSc thesis, 
which probably means that only those students who already have a special 
interest in security will choose it.

-Martin

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