FloCon (Salt Lake City, Utah)

January 10-13, 2011

Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown
Salt Lake City, Utah

FloCon is an open workshop that provides a forum for operational analysts, tool developers, and other parties interested in the analysis of large volumes of traffic to showcase the next generation of flow-based analysis techniques. Flow is an abstraction of network traffic in which packets are grouped together by common attributes over time. In security, flow has been used to survey and analyze large networks and long periods of time, as well as to provide a retrospective view of network activity for incident handling.

This year’s workshop will focus on learning about your network. Presentation submissions are highly encouraged, but they are not required to attend the workshop. Presenters should consider how flow can be used to find out what is really happening on a network, not just how the network was designed to work or how you think it works.

BlackHat (Washington, DC)

Hyatt Regency Crystal City
training: jan.16 – 17 | briefings: jan.18 – 19

The Black Hat Briefings have become the biggest and the most important security conference series in the world by sticking to our core value: serving the information security community by delivering timely, actionable security information in a friendly, vendor-neutral environment.

This site is a portal intended to provide users with current, useful and relevant information resources regarding the upcoming Black Hat DC 2011 conference.

Shmoocon – Washington DC

Different – ShmooCon is an annual east coast hacker convention hell-bent on offering three days of an interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software and hardware solutions, and open discussions of critical infosec issues. The first day is a single track of speed talks called One Track Mind. The next two days bring three tracks: Build It, Break It and Bring It On.

Affordable – ShmooCon is about high quality without the high price. Keep in mind that space is limited and we’ve sold out quickly every year.

Accessible – ShmooCon is held in Washington, DC at the Washington Hilton Hotel, just a few short blocks from the DC metro. Fly into DCA, IAD or BWI or take a train to Union Station and you’re just a short cab ride away from the con.

Entertaining – Brain melting from all the cool tech you’re learning? Be sure to check out the other events running during ShmooCon, including the Hacker Arcade, ShmooCon Labs, Hack-or-Halo and more. Saturday night is party night, where typically we throw an off site bash just to shake things up a bit.

via Shmoocon.

Security B-Sides – Minneapolis St. Paul

Each BSides is a community-driven event built for and by information security community members. The goal is to expand the spectrum of conversation beyond the traditional confines of space and time. It creates opportunities for individuals to both present and participate in an intimate atmosphere that encourages collaboration. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. It is where conversations for the next-big-thing are happening. We’ve loosely based the concept on the BarCamp format… because it works.

via Security B-Sides.