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We're announcing speakers each day on the 44CON website and in social media. To make sure you don't miss out on any of the line-up we have, here are the speakers, talks and workshop announcements you may have missed:
- Talk: Steve Armstrong - Advanced Incident Remediation Techniques
- Talk: Graham Sutherland - Saving Nostalgia: Modding an old Z80 computer
- Talk: Graham McKay - Data protection, privacy and cloud computing: navigating legal compliance
- Workshop: Phillipe Arteau - Advanced Java Application Code Review
All of our talks, workshops and speakers can be found on the website.
Today's speaker: Haroon Meer
Today's speaker announcement is for Haroon Meer and his keynote, Haroon Meer - Light at the end of the tunnel. (Hope for team Defense).
The former Deputy Director of the NSA (Chris Inglis) is reputed to have said that "if we were to score cyber the way we score soccer, the tally would be 462-456 twenty minutes into the game, i.e., all offence". A quick look at conference line ups (or the evening news) supports this claim. For a long time, team offence has grabbed the lion’s share of both headlines and talent, causing more and more people to turn into full-time security nihilists.
We can turn this around.
While headlines have been dominated by breaches and security fails, a few positive stories (with massive potential) have slipped by almost silently. While we have seen hundreds (and thousands) of companies doing security horribly wrong, we are now also starting to see signs of companies "getting things right". While most companies have been clinging desperately to hope (or prayer) as prospective defence strategies, we are now seeing signs of better solutions emerging.
Aside from being uncharacteristically upbeat, this talk aims to highlight some of these wins, and some of the winning strategies that have started making the scoreboard look a little more respectable.
Haroon Meer is a lead researcher at thinkst, an applied research company with a deep focus on Information Security. Haroon has contributed to several books on Penetration Testing and Security and is a regular speaker at both academic and industry conferences around the world.
Haroon opened our very first 44CON in 2011, and we're really looking forward to having him back. Tickets are expected to sell out, so get yours while you can.
44CON Training Still Available
If you have some time before the con why not take one of our awesome training courses:
Today's speaker: Haroon Meer
Today's speaker announcement is for Haroon Meer and his keynote, Haroon Meer - Light at the end of the tunnel. (Hope for team Defense).
The former Deputy Director of the NSA (Chris Inglis) is reputed to have said that "if we were to score cyber the way we score soccer, the tally would be 462-456 twenty minutes into the game, i.e., all offence". A quick look at conference line ups (or the evening news) supports this claim. For a long time, team offence has grabbed the lion’s share of both headlines and talent, causing more and more people to turn into full-time security nihilists.
We can turn this around.
While headlines have been dominated by breaches and security fails, a few positive stories (with massive potential) have slipped by almost silently. While we have seen hundreds (and thousands) of companies doing security horribly wrong, we are now also starting to see signs of companies "getting things right". While most companies have been clinging desperately to hope (or prayer) as prospective defence strategies, we are now seeing signs of better solutions emerging.
Aside from being uncharacteristically upbeat, this talk aims to highlight some of these wins, and some of the winning strategies that have started making the scoreboard look a little more respectable.
Haroon Meer is a lead researcher at thinkst, an applied research company with a deep focus on Information Security. Haroon has contributed to several books on Penetration Testing and Security and is a regular speaker at both academic and industry conferences around the world.
Haroon opened our very first 44CON in 2011, and we're really looking forward to having him back. Tickets are expected to sell out, so get yours while you can.
44CON Training Still Available
If you have some time before the con why not take one of our awesome training courses:
- Applied Physical Attacks on Embedded Systems, Presented by Joe FitzPatrick
- The ARM Exploit Laboratory, Presented by Saumil Shah
- Hacking Web Applications - case studies of award-winning bugs in Google,Yahoo,Mozilla and more, Presented by Dawid Czagan
- Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook: Live Edition, Presented by Dominic Chell, MDSec
- PwnAdventure: RE through Gaming Hacking, Presented by Jordan Wiens, Peter LaFosse & Rusty Wagner
- Web Application Hacker's Handbook, Presented by Marcus Pinto, MDSec
- Windows Kernel Exploitation, Presented by Ashfaq Ansari
To find out more on these training courses please visit our website . To avoid disappointment, please register for your course early! Courses require a minimum number of attendees to be conducted. We reserve the right to cancel a course if minimum numbers are not reached up to 3 weeks prior to the event. The deadline is tomorrow!
Training courses will be running from the 12-14th September at our training venue.
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