For those of you who haven’t seen me speak, Bluehat generally brings out the best in me and happens to capture it on video and make it available for you!
Here you go (link if you can’t see the embedded video below):
Enjoy!
/Hoff
Security B-Sides has long since emerged from the “Indie” shadow it was born from and now represents and produces some of the most amazing content and speakers in the security (mainstream and otherwise) industry.
So why don’t I speak at any of them?
Two reasons.
1) Many of the B-Sides get spun up quickly and without much notice. Those that I might be able to travel to/attend take place alongside the bigger conferences which I am required to attend and/or have committed to speak at far in advance, and…
2) I speak at 30-40 conferences a year. People don’t need to hear me prattle on about the same things I’ve spoken about elsewhere. Further, many of the folks who respond with awesome CFP submissions to B-Sides don’t (for a number of reasons) speak at the larger conferences…so why should I take up space when others should be given this amazing opportunity?
So there you have it.
Support B-Sides. One day I’ll get to one live. Until then, I’ll watch the live streams.
/Hoff
Recent Speaking Engagements/Confirmed to speak at the following upcoming events:There are a ton of venues I haven’t added here because they are directly related to customer visits that may not wish to be disclosed. You can see the prior list of speaking engagements listed here.
[I often get a bunch of guff as to why I make these lists: ego, horn-tooting, self-aggrandizement. I wish I thought I were that important. 
The real reason is that it helps me keep track of useful stuff focused not only on my participation, but that of the rest of the blogosphere. It also allows folks to plan meet-ups]
/Hoff
This year looks to be another swell get-together in Vegas. I had to miss last year (first time in…forever) so I’m looking forward to 112 degrees, recirculated air, and stumble-drunk hax0rs jackpotting ATMs and commandeering elevators.
I’ll be getting in on the 27th. I have a keynote at the Cloud Security Alliance Summit on the 28th (co-located within Black Hat,) a talk on the 29th at Black Hat (Cloudinomicon) from 10am-11am and I’ll be on another FAIL panel at Defcon with the boys. I’ve got a bunch of (gasp!) customer meetings and (gasp! x2) work stuff to do, but plenty of time for the usual.
I’m going to try to hit Cobra Kai, Xtreme Couture or the Tapout facilities whilst there for some no-gi grappling or even BJJ if I can find a class. Either way, there are some hard core P90X’ers that I’m sure I can con into working out in 90 degree, 6am weather.
Rumors of mojitos and cigars at Casa Fuente are completely unfounded. Completely.
Oh, parties? They have parties? 😉
See y’all there!
/Hoff
I’m hurrying to polish up the next in my series of virtualization and cloud computing security presentations which I’m going to give at this year’s Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on July 29th. I’m speaking from 10-11am on day two up next to folks like Jeremiah Grossman, Moxie Marlinspike, Ivan Ristic, Haroon Meer…quite the “power hour” as someone said on the Twitter.
At any rate, I started the series a couple of years ago with the following progression:
I proudly present numero quatro:
CLOUDINOMICON: Idempotent Infrastructure, Survivable Systems & Bringing Sexy Back to Information Centricity
Mass-market, low-cost, commodity infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing providers abstract away compute, network and storage and deliver hyper-scaleable capabilities.
This “abstraction distraction” has brought us to the point where the sanctity and security of the applications and information transiting them are dependent upon security models and expertise rooted in survivable distributed systems, at layers where many security professionals have no visibility.
The fundamental re-architecture of the infostructure, metastructure and infrastructure constructs in this new world forces us back to the design elements of building survivable systems focusing on information centricity — protecting the stuff that matters most in the first place.
The problem is that we’re unprepared for what this means and most practitioners and vendors focused on the walled garden, perimeterized models of typical DMZ architecture are at a loss as to how to apply security in a disintermediated and distributed sets of automated, loosely-coupled resources.
We’re going to cover the most salient points relating to how IaaS Cloud architecture shifts how, where and who architects, deploys and manages security in this “new world order” and what your options are in making sustainable security design decisions.
It’s progressing nicely. Hope to see you there (and at Defcon)
Here is some of the recent coverage from the last couple of months or so on topics relevant to content on my blog, presentations and speaking engagements. No particular order or priority and I haven’t kept a good record, unfortunately.
Important Stuff I’m Working On:
Press/Technology & Security eZines/Website/Blog Coverage/Meaningful Links:
Recent Speaking Engagements/Confirmed to speak at the following upcoming events:
Conferences I am tentatively attending, trying to attend and/or working on logistics for speaking:
Oh, let us not forget these top honors (buahahaha!)
[I often get a bunch of guff as to why I make these lists: ego, horn-tooting, self-aggrandizement. I wish I thought I were that important. 😉 The real reason is that it helps me keep track of useful stuff focused not only on my participation, but that of the rest of the blogosphere.]
/Hoff
The (first annual) 2009 Federal Identity Management & Cyber Security Conference is being held in Washington on December 15-16th. I’m speaking on day two on a panel moderated by Earl Crane of DHS on “Innovation and security in Cloud Computing.”
The Information Security and Identity Management Committee (ISIMC) of the Federal CIO Council is taking steps to deliver on the President’s pledge for cybersecurity. ISIMC will discuss strategies and tactics for securing and defending federal IT systems and networks for trusted and reliable global communication.
The objectives of this conference are awareness, education, and alignment toward a common vision for cyber defense within the federal community. This conference will focus on protecting the nation against cyber aggression, while preserving and protecting the personal privacy and civil liberties that are the core of american values.
Hosted by the Information Security and Identity management committee (ISIMC), which supports the federal CIO Council in enabling chief Information officers (CIOs) and chief Information Security officers (CISOs) to collaborate on: (1) identifying high priority cybersecurity and identity management initiatives; and (2) developing recommendations for policies, procedures, and standards to address those initiatives that enhance the security posture and protection afforded to federal government networks, information, and information systems.
Topics Include
This should be an interesting two days.
Here is some of the recent coverage from the last month or so on topics relevant to content on my blog, presentations and speaking engagements. No particular order or priority and I haven’t kept a good record, unfortunately.
Press/Technology & Security eZines/Website/Blog Coverage/Meaningful Links:
Podcasts/Webcasts/Video:
Recent Speaking Engagements/Confirmed to speak at the following upcoming events:
I also forgot to thank Eric Siebert for putting together the VMware Top 20 blog list and putting me on it as well as the fact that Rational Survivability made the Datamation 2009 Top 200 Tech Blogs list.
/Hoff
I’m loathe to upload this presentation because really the slides accompany me (not the other way around) and there’s a ton of really important subtext and dialog that goes along with them, but I’m getting hammered with requests to release the deck, so here it is.
I will be giving this presentation at various venues over the next few months as well as the second in the series titled “Cloudifornication: Indiscriminate Information Intercourse Involving Internet Infrastructure.”
At any rate, it’s another rather colorful presentation. It’s in PDF format and is roughly 12MB.
Click here to download it.
Enjoy
/Hoff
Here is some of the recent coverage from the last couple of months on topics relevant to content on my blog, presentations and speaking engagements. No particular order or priority.
Press/Technology & Security eZines:
Website/Blog Coverage/Meaningful Links:
I should note that many of my cloud computing writing is being republished over at the SYSCON Cloud Computing Journal with a self-branded mini-site: ChristoferHoff.Sys-Con.com
Podcasts/Webcasts/Video:
I am confirmed to speak at the following upcoming events:
I should/will be attending the following events:
/Hoff
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