BSidesTO 2017 occurred on Sunday, November 12th at the Ryerson University ENG103, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church St, Toronto

Sponsorship was provided by Symantec, Fortinet, Scalar and Security Mason, with friend organizations of Ryerson University, Security Innovations, No Starch Press, and SecTor all helping to make the event a success. The charity for this year was the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in the name of LoneFerret. 

Information on future events can be found at http://www.bsidesto.ca/; follow us on twitter @BSidesTO and contact us at info@bsidesto.ca for any further information. 

This year's talks and speakers were:

• Cloud Access Security Brokers. Extending Your Perimeter by Michael Ball. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtgnFC6tarA
• Frugal Web Application Testing - Can in-house penetration testing achieve industry standard results while saving you money? by Harshal Chandorkar and Natalia Wadden. Video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDiWMRBdeCA
• Mobile Spyware - From Nosy Ads to Nation-state Espionage by Adam Bauer and Christoph T. Hebeisen. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0ckdYKk77w
• Assessing Node.js Web Application Security by Vince Marcovecchio. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL-hzdzX20o
• Reduce Your Active Directory Attack Surface: Securing the Forest Through The Trees by Joe Bate and Cheryl Biswas. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_ZSvn_90M
• From Good To Excellent: An Overview On the Upcoming Release of libModSecurity by Victor Hora and Felipe Costa. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlaSzaUkjRk
• You're Testing it Wrong - Adventures In IPS and Firewall Testing Methodologies by Chuck Mcauley. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C002UG7RO4Y
• Risk-Based Security Incident Response (SIR); and an introduction to SICON by Keith Jonah and Kevin Pietersma. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKSSYC6yNU
• Practical Statistics for Threat Intelligence by Nir Yosha. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kVAF8Uxk2g
• Red and Blue Ping Pong by Lee Kagan and Anton Ovrutsky. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDEEDZkIZGw
• Hacking CERN: A Panel Discussion - The HackCERN Team: Allan Stojanovic, Jamie Baxter, Paul Lariviere, Brendan Hohenadel, David Auclair, and other malcontents. TLP Green: Video not recorded

BSidesTO 2017 was organized by:

• Laura Payne
• Dave Lewis
• Fred Dorre
• Allan Stojanovic
• Max Cizauskas