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Events for 2008
Event
Date
Location
Notes
SecureAmsterdam Conference on Emerging Threats
Jul 15
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
'This one-day conference will focus on emerging threats. Attendees will be given insight into why Intrusion Detection Systems are ineffective in detecting real hackers, with a focus on signature and anomaly based systems. Sessions will engage in the devastating effects and developments of DDOS attacks and how to avoid them, email encryption and the social engineering threat communities pose to a company to name a few. The conference will end with a panel discussion allowing audience interaction.'
SANSFIRE 2008
Jul 22-31
Washington, DC, USA
'The course schedule for SANSFIRE 2008 features a full line-up in the disciplines of audit, security, management and legal as well as new courses with a focus on penetration testing, malware analysis and removal, and secure coding.'
USENIX Security 08
Jul 28 - Aug 01
London, UK
'The Symposium will span five days: a training program will be followed by a two and one-half day technical program, which will include refereed papers, invited talks, posters, Work-in-Progress reports, panel discussions, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. Registration opens April 2008.'
Black Hat USA 2008
Aug 02 - 07
Las Vegas, NV, USA
'Attend Black Hat USA, August 2-7 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical event for ICT security experts. Featuring 40 hands-on training courses and 80 Briefings presentations with lots of new content and new tools. Network with 4,000 delegates from 50 nations. Visit product displays by 30 top sponsors in a relaxed setting including industry leaders Microsoft, Cisco, Google and new startups. Briefings tracks include many updated topics plus the always popular ones including Zero Day Attacks/Defenses, Bots, Application Security, Deep Knowledge and Turbo Talks. Register early for the best rates. www.blackhat.com.'
CEAS 2008
Aug 21 - 22
Mountain View, CA, USA
MAAWG 14th general meeting
Sep 22 - 24
Miami, FL, USA
Meeting open to members only.
VB2008
Oct 01 - 03
Ottawa, Canada
VB2008 - the 18th Virus Bulletin International Conference - will be held 1-3 October 2008 in Ottawa, Canada. Enquiries relating to sponsorship or any other form of participation should be sent to vb2008@virusbtn.com.
SecTor
Oct 07 - 08
Toronto, Canada
'Illuminating the Black Art of Security. SecTor brings the world's brightest (and darkest) minds together to identify, discuss, dissect and debate the latest digital threats facing corporations today.'
Malware 2008
Oct 07 - 08
Alexandria, VA, USA
'The conference is designed to bring together experts from industry, academia and government to present and discuss, in an open environment, the latest advances and discoveries in the field of malicious and unwanted software, the techniques, economics and legal issues behind their use, and the methods to detect and control them.'
Black Hat Japan 2008
Oct 07 - 10
Tokyo, Japan
Net Focus UK 2008
Oct 08 - 09
Brighton, UK
'Net Focus UK deals with all the soft policy issues (security, personnel, compliance, data privacy, business risk, e-commerce risk) that major companies are struggling with.'
APWG eCrime Researchers Summit
Oct 15 - 16
Atlanta, GA, USA
'eCrime '08 will bring together academic researchers, security practitioners and law enforcement representatives to discuss all aspects of electronic crime and ways to prevent it.'
SecureLondon Workshop on Computer Forensics
Oct 21
London, UK
'This one-day workshop will focus on Computer Forensics. Attendees will be given an introduction into the standards, legislation, regulation and principles surrounding this area. Sessions will engage in workshop-style scenarios, the pros and cons of case studies and key issues to be aware of during Crisis Management. Insight will be provided into the process of extraction, analysis and evidence as well as taking a look at mitigation and remedial measures available.'
RSA Europe 2008
Oct 27 - 29
London, UK
'This year the conference theme celebrates the influence of Alan Mathison Turing, British cryptographer, mathematician, logician, philosopher, biologist and 'the father of modern computer science'.'
CSI 2008
Nov 15 - 21
National Harbor, MD, USA
Registration will open June 2008.
AVAR 2008
Dec 10 - 12
New Delhi, India
'The 11th Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers International Conference will be hosted by Quick Heal Technologies Pvt in New Delhi, India.'
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