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Events for 2010
Event
Date
Location
Notes
MAAWG 18th general meeting
Feb 16 - 18
San Francisco, CA, USA
Meeting open to members only; the general theme is 'Protecting the End-User'.
RSA Conference 2010
Mar 01 - 05
San Francisco, CA, Canada
Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit 2010
Mar 03 - 04
London, UK
'The Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit will help you to exploit the full potential of new and future IAM investments, to fully realize their risk-management and governance benefits and their direct business value. Your guaranteed takeaways from the Gartner IAM Summit 2010: a validated strategy and future-proof roadmap for IAM.'
7th Annual Enterprise Security Conference
Mar 03 - 04
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
'AC-Nergy is organising the 7th Annual Enterprise Security Conference on 3-4 March 2010 in Malaysia. The theme for the 2010 conference is 'Establishing Effective Strategies To Secure The Enterprise Against New Age Cyber Crime'.
SecureCloud 2010
Mar 16 - 17
Barcelona, Spain
'SecureCloud 2010 is a premier educational and networking event hosted by the European Network and Information Security Agency, the Cloud Security Alliance and ISACA, three of the leading organizations shaping the future of Cloud Computing Security.'
Security Summit
Mar 16 - 18
Milan, Italy
'Security Summit is a new event for anyone interested in IT systems, networks and information security. Conceived and planned to answer the current needs of professionals, Security Summit aims at bringing together analysis, training, discussion and public information.'
CanSecWest
Mar 22 - 26
Vancouver, Canada
'The conference lasts for three days and features a single track of thought provoking presentations, each prepared by an experienced professional and talented educator who is at the cutting edge of his or her field.'
MIT Spam Conference
Mar 25 - 26
Boston, MA, USA
'A call for papers, venue announcements and other details will be announced in due course.'
Black Hat Europe 2010
Apr 12 - 15
Barcelona, Spain
'In nearly a decade Black Hat Europe has been the forum for showcasing research that addresses the needs of the global security market.'
New York Computer Forensics Show
Apr 19 - 20
New York, NY, USA
Infosecurity Europe
Apr 27 - 29
London, UK
'Infosecurity Europe is the No. 1 industry event in Europe held on 27th - 29th April at Earl's Court, London. The event provides an unrivalled free education programme, exhibitors showcasing new and emerging technologies and offering practical and professional expertise. To register to visit or for further information please visit www.infosec.co.uk.'
EICAR 2010
May 08 - 11
Paris, France
The theme of this year's event is 'ICT security: quo vadis?'. A call for papers has been issued with submission deadlines of 20 December 2009 for peer-reviewed papers and 13 December for non-reviewed papers.
APWG Counter eCrime Operations Summit
May 11 - 13
Sao Paolo, Brazil
'The fourth annual Counter-eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS IV) will engage questions of operational challenges and the development of common resources for the first responders and forensic professionals who protect consumers and enterprises from the ecrime threat every day. This year's meeting will focus on the development of response paradigms and resources for counter-ecrime managers and forensic professionals. Presenters will proffer case studies of national and regional economies under attack, narratives of successful trans-national forensic cooperation as well as models for cooperation and unified response against ecrime and data resources for forensic activities.'
International Secure Systems Development Conference (ISSD)
May 20 - 21
London, UK
'The conference theme is developing new applications securely and adding security to legacy applications - both standard and web-based. Addressing the issue that many experts are realising that the vast majority of today's vulnerabilities can be tracked back to shortcomings in application coding, and repeated design failures whereby business-critical applications are simply not able to function as part of today's pervasive security and authentication architectures.'
NISC11
May 19 - 21
St Andrews, Scotland
CARO 2010 Workshop
May 26 - 27
Helsinki, Finland
'The 4th CARO Technical Workshop will focus on the topic of 'Big Numbers' and will gather anti-virus researchers from around the world.'
CSI SX - Security for Business Agility
May 26 - 27
San Francisco, CA, USA
MAAWG 19th general meeting
June 08 - 10
Barcelona, Spain
Meeting open to members only.
Security Summit
June 09 - 10
Rome, Italy
'Security Summit is a new event for anyone interested in IT systems, networks and information security. Conceived and planned to answer the current needs of professionals, Security Summit aims at bringing together analysis, training, discussion and public information.'
22nd Annual FIRST Conference on Computer Security Incident Handling
June 13 - 18
Miami, FL, USA
'The conference promotes worldwide coordination and cooperation among CSIRTs and provides a forum for sharing goals, ideas and information on how to improve global computer security.'
DIMVA 2010
July 08 - 09
Bonn, Germany
'The annual conference on Detection of Intrusions & Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) serves as a premier forum for advancing the state of the art in intrusion detection, malware detection, and vulnerability assessment. Each year DIMVA brings together international experts from academia, industry and government to present and discuss novel research in these areas. DIMVA is organized by the special interest group Security - Intrusion Detection and Response (SIDAR) of the German Informatics Society (GI). DIMVA 2010 will be hosted by Fraunhofer FKIE and the University of Bonn.'
CEAS 2010
July 13 - 14
Redmond, WA, USA
Black Hat USA 2010
July 24 - 29
Las Vegas, NV, USA
'The flagship Black Hat event has provided a venue for elite security researchers and trainers to meet with over 5,000 security professionals annually.'
19th USENIX Security Symposium
Aug 11 - 13
Washington, DC, USA
VB2010 Vancouver
Sept 29 - Oct 01
Vancouver, Canada
VB2010 will be held at the Westin Bayshore hotel in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Further details will be announced in due course - in the meantime, anyone wanting information on sponsorship of the event or any other form of participation should contact conference@virusbtn.com.
MAAWG 20th general meeting
Oct 04 - 06
Washington DC, USA
Meeting open to members only.
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