Source Boston – Video Interviews of Security Rockstars…
Source Boston has officially wound down, but I’m still on Cloud 9 (sorry) following the amazing sessions and interaction I had with my fellow attendees and speakers.
My presentation was well received and with Marcus Ranum, Dan Geer, and Adam Shostack sitting six feet in front of me, I didn’t choke as badly as I could have. I had a ton of fun giving this first run preso and got a lot of great feedback and questions.
One of the most excellent things I got to do was spend some time walking about with Zach Lanier (@quine on Twitter) and interview many of the vendors and speakers extemporaneously on various subjects.
I’ll be updating this post with links to the interviews as I get them cleaned up and uploaded.
Here’s a sampling of what you can expect:
- David Mortman, “I Can Haz Privacy”
- Dmitry McKay, LogLogic
- Chris Wysopal – Veracode
- Peter Kuper – “Silver Linings”
- Jose Nazario, Arbor, “Politically Motivated DDoS Attacks”
- Jeremiah Grossman, Whitehat Security, “Get Rich or Die Trying, Making Money the Black Hat Way”
- Amrit Williams, BigFix, “The Economics of CyberCrime & the Law of Malware Probability”
- Adam Shostack, Microsoft, “The Crisis In Information Security”
- Dan Kaminsky, IOActive, “DNS – Toward a Secure Infrastructure”
- Chris Weber, Casaba Security, “Exploiting Unicode-Enabled Software”
- Rob Cheyne, SafeLight, “The End Of Our Rope: The On-Going Discussion Between Business & Security”
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wonder why people gave me this task…
But seriously, we discuss such mega-issues such as DDoS, Snuggies, Bedazzlers, Zombies and Estonian dissident groups (and that’s in just ONE of the talks.)
I think I’ve found something I absolutely LOVE doing — vlogging (video blogging) and will try and do more of it.
Check back for updates to the links over the weekend.
/Hoff
Categories: Security Conferences
I am still on a "cloud", too, today. The 4 hour plane ride home couldn't knock me off of it.
The Source Boston conference was just fantastic – my first time to attend. I am hopeful to find a way to come back next year, and maybe go to Barcelona in the fall.
For those who did not attend, I would highly encourage you to come next time – it's a deep, high energy, focused, and friendly event of the highest quality.
Chris, whatever you may think, your "preso" was the most amazing of the 15 amazing sessions and keynotes that I attended – hands down.
It was the clearest, most articulate, and most comprehensive exposition of VM's and the cloud that I have ever seen or heard.
I have about 10 pages of typed notes that I made while you were talking. Also, I bought the dvd and watched it on the plane ride home. I will be referring to both quite a bit from here on.
I am an older guy – I have seen plenty of presos in my life – yours was one of the best ever.
Patrick Florer
Dallas
Patrick:
Your comments are exceptionally kind and humbling.
Thank you very much.
/Hoff
(The AV guy assaulting me with the microphone was pretty funny…esp. since the video is blacked out for the first 3 minutes or so 😉
Is there a video of your presentation? I've gone through the slides that you have posted, but I'd like to get the color behind some of the slides. I know that this may be an "intellectual property" issue for either you or SOURCE, but just have to ask!