Anti-malware events calendar

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Events for 2010

Event	Date	Location	Notes
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 list of accepted papers is now available at http://projects.csail.mit.edu/spamconf/SC2010/accepted-papers.html.'
CSI Filter	Apr 08	Online	'Filter brings live action and Q&A to your desktop. With a full, four-hour online conference program focusing on the paradigm changes in enterprise applications, Filter is about the content, about the learning experience, about helping you interact with your colleagues. For more information, visit www.CSIfilter.com'
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?'.
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	'CSI SX 2010 addresses the challenges of managing security in an increasingly mobile business environment and shows organizations how to stay secure while increasing business agility. Through extensive demos, engaging presentations and innovative analysis, CSI SX will add value not just to security programs, but to entire organizations. For more information, visit www.CSIsx.com.'
MAAWG 19th general meeting	June 08 - 10	Barcelona, Spain	'MAAWG meetings, which are open to only members and invited guests, are multiple-track events and generally attended by 200 to 300 participants. Leading industry experts, researchers and public policy officials address such diverse topics as bot mitigation practices, social networking abuse and pending legislation. Each three-day meeting with a half day of optional training is an exceptional opportunity to discuss the latest in messaging security with other professionals in a focused environment of working sessions and educational panels. For questions and invites request go to http://www.maawg.org/contact_form '
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	'MAAWG meetings, which are open to only members and invited guests, are multiple-track events and generally attended by 200 to 300 participants. Leading industry experts, researchers and public policy officials address such diverse topics as bot mitigation practices, social networking abuse and pending legislation. Each three-day meeting with a half day of optional training is an exceptional opportunity to discuss the latest in messaging security with other professionals in a focused environment of working sessions and educational panels. For questions and invites request go to http://www.maawg.org/contact_form '