Archive for October, 2009

AppSec DC Update

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Most of my time these days is going into AppSecDC. So I thought I’d share a bit of a shameless plug here that I just sent out to the conference mailing list:

People are registering, hotel rooms are being booked, classes are being enrolled in, and we’re just over a month out!

First off, if you haven’t registered or approached us about volunteering yet, today is the LAST day for early bird registration.

The link for registration is here

Secondly, if you are interested in volunteering, and haven’t contacted us about it yet, please contact Jon Rose, who is handling the volunteer coordination these days. He will be sending out a volunteer information packet in the next few days that should have answers to some of your questions, and he should be able to hook you up with getting “signed up” for specific positions.

Also, got Web 2.0? If so, we’re out there, and need your help. Follow, join, repost, talk about, and all those other good things. Every bit of extra visibility gives people who don’t know about the conference a chance to join in and participate!

Follow @AppSecDC09 on Twitter!

Join the event on Facebook, Linked In, or Upcoming !!

If you can, publish the event to your profile about it on whatever service, and tell your friends!

Look for more announcement soon. Next week, we’ll be highlighting some of the training options, and talking about what’s going on with our panels and some of our other events.

Podcast Love

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

I (among others) are appearing in a few podcasts this week.

Amrit Williams interviewed me for his “Beyond the Perimeter” podcast, where in several parts I discuss AppSecDC, OWASP, and web application security. The first of these is up today, the others will follow next Tuesday and Thursday. BTP is also on iTunes.

Jim Manico, host of the wildly successful OWASP podcast, was nice enough to have a bunch of us over for some friendly banter about security inside the beltway a while back. You can hear that as of today, or if you subscribe through iTunes, you can get it there as well. This features myself, Matt Fisher of Piscis Security, Jack Whitsitt, Dan Philpott of Fismapedia and Guerilla-CISO. Mike Smith of Guerilla-CISO just missed us, and will be on another episode coming out soon!