September is less than 30 days away and already shaping up to be one of the most exciting months from an InfoSec perspective that I’ve have signed up to participate in. This industry (artform) has been nothing short of amazing to be involved with. Sitting in a cube and reading about most of these things, vs going out and getting involved should be a huge learning opportunity. If you are within driving distance of Kansas City and are remotely interesting in information security , consider coming to these events!
First up from:
Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 10:00 AM
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Friday, September 17, 2010 at 4:00 PM (CT)
Is the first anual Cyber-RAID event.
What is Cyber-RAID you ask?
The Kansas City InfraGard program is hosting a two day cyber event which pits systems and security professionals from the community against each other in a live cyber attack on a replicated commercial network. This event will specifically focus on managing and protecting this existing “commercial” network infrastructure from a live cyber attack. Since the exercise network is hosted on a private managed network that is not on the Internet, production data and systems are not at risk.
Register here: http://cyberraid.eventbrite.com/?ref=ecount
Note: We need RED Team members!!!
Next up we have SecuityBsidesKC which begins at 10:00am on Friday September 17th and runs through until 5:00pm that night. I’ve never been at a BSides event, or a Security Con for that matter, but I think it would be safe to assume it will run past 5pm.
Look at the current lineup for speakers, this is shaping up to be a pretty amazing/can’t miss line up.
Call for presenters is still open, so please submit any talks. There will be barcamp style talk acceptance after the scheduled speakers.
Again, I can’t wait for september to get here so I can sponge knowledge off of people like @ax0n, @hevnsnt, @surbo, @jur1st and @davehull, and im sure there are more that I simply don’t know what their twitter accounts are 