Welcome to the Security BSides Community Wiki

 

What is BSides?

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.

 

Upcoming Events : #BSidesLV (28-29 July 2010), #BSidesKC (Sept. 2010), #BSidesAtlanta (8 Oct 2010), #BSidesDFW (6 Nov 2010), #BSidesOttawa (12-13 Nov 2010)

 

 

Recent Events : #BSidesDenver (18 June 2010), #BSidesBOS (24 April 2010), #BSidesAustin (13 March 2010), #BSidesSanFrancisco (2-3 March 2010)

 

Welcome to the Security BSides Community Wiki What is BSides? Information and Resources BSides's History Anti-spam policy Past, Present, and Future BSides Events North America Europe Africa Asia South America Oceania

Information and Resources

 

Questions? Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) << or >> 415-742-1739

 

Examples? Take a look at the BSidesLasVegas01, BSidesSanFrancisco, BSidesBay, and BSidesAustin for details of what completed events look like.

 

New here? Join the SecurityBSides Mailing List, FaceBook BSides Group, SlideShare, or Twitter.

 

Attending? What to expect at a BSides event.

 

Organizing? Read about... organizing.

 

Sponsorship? Interested in Sponsoring this group or one event?

 

Media/Press: Read about the media coverage we get!

 

Site maintenance join the SiteMaintainers if you want to help keeping this site functional. If you have problems while editing, you may find helpers there.

 

BSides's History

 

BSides was born out of number of rejections to the CFP for Black Hat USA 2009.  A number of quality speakers were rejected, not due to lack of quality but lack of space and time.  Any constrained system must operate within the bounds to which it has defined itself.  Conferences constrain themselves to the eight hours a day for however many days they run.  Our goal is to provide people with options by removing those barriers and providing more options for speakers, topics, and events.   Much like Noisebridge, and other hacker spaces, we are a do-acracy; in other words, if you want it, then you do to it or make it happen.  We do not have members, but rather participants.  You are the "we" and we can only be successful if you make that happen for yourself.

 

Anti-spam policy

 

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Past, Present, and Future BSides Events

Note: THIS list right here is the 'definitive list' of upcoming SecurityBSides events. The links in the event lists _must_ point to a properly formatted SecurityBSides page (see UsingTheBSidesWiki for details). If your country isn't listed, perhaps it's time for you to organize a BSides there!

 

North America

 

USA

1. July 29-30, 2009 - BSidesLasVegas01 - coinciding with Black Hat USA 2009.
2. July 29-30, 2009 - Neighborcon - coinciding with BSidesLasVegas.
3. December 12, 2009 - BSidesBay (Mountain View, CA) - a bbq, pirate party in Silicon Valley!
4. March 2-3, 2010 - BSidesSanFrancisco - coinciding with RSA Conference.
5. March 13, 2010 - BSidesAustin - "Keep Security Weird" - Coinciding with SxSW Interactive
6. April 24-25, 2010 - BSidesBoston - Saturday after SOURCE Boston.
7. June 18, 2010 - BSidesDenver "Mile High Security"
8. July 28-29, 2010 - BSidesLasVegas - coinciding with Black Hat / Defcon
9. September 2010 - BSidesKC (coinciding with an InfraGard supported Cyber-RAID CyberWarefare event)
10. Nov 6, 2010 - BSidesDFW "Don't mess with Security"
11. October 8, 2010 - BSidesAtlanta
12. TBD - BSidesChicago
13. Add your next camp here

 

Canada

1. November 12th & 13th, 2010 -  BSidesOttawa

 

Europe

 

Belgium

1. September 24-25, 2010 - BruCon (via @security4all) 

 

United Kingdom

1. April ??-??, 2011 - BSidesLondon - coinciding with InfoSec 2011

 

 

Africa

 

South Africa

1. November 21, 2009 - ZaCon 2009 (@zacon09) - via @singe, @haroonmeer, @z0nbi, @Paterva

 

Asia

 

China

1. Add your next BSides here

 

India

1. BSidesNewDelhi 
2. Add your next BSides here 

 

Japan

1. Add your next BSides here

 

Korea

1. Add your next BSides here

 

South America

 

Brazil

1. Add your next BSides here

 

Oceania

 

Australia

1. Add your next BSides here 

 

New Zealand

1. Add your next BSides here