[ISN] Facebook Chief Security Officer to Keynote 2nd Annual HITB Security Conference in Europe

http://conference.hackinthebox.nl/hitbsecconf2011ams/

Facebook Chief Security Officer to Keynote 2nd Annual HITB Security 
Conference in Europe

Utrecht, The Netherlands
02 March 2011 

After the success of last year’s inaugural event, Hack In The Box 
Security Conference is taking over the Krasnapolsky once again from the 
17th till the 20th of May. This deep knowledge security conference 
brings a unique mix of security professionals, researchers, law 
enforcement and members of the hacker underground under one roof, with 
the focus of discussing new and groundbreaking attack and defense 
methods.

HITB2011AMS will be a 4-day event, starting with 2 days of intensive 
hands-on training sessions followed by a two-day conference with four 
simultaneous tracks including a hands-on lab session (HITB Labs) and a 
15 minute lightning talks segment (HITB SIGINT). Alongside the 
confernece proceedings there will also be an industry exhibition and 
technology showcase area which is open to public.

The event kicks off on Tuesday the 17th of May with two days of four 
mind-blowing technical training sessions. French security researcher and 
Founder of TEHTRI-Security, Lurent Oudot, teaches a hands-on 
self-defense course on Hunting Web Attackers, while Shreeraj Shah and 
Vimal Patel of BlueInfy will be giving attendees an inside look into 
testing the security of web applications in their Web Hacking 2.0 class. 
If web application security isn’t your thing, Saumil Shah and SK Chong, 
will dive into vulnerability analysis and next generation exploit 
writing in The Exploit Laboratory: Black Belt while Matthieu Suiche from 
MoonSols will be running a Windows Physical Memory Acquisition & 
Analysis course catoring to those interested in investigations and 
forensic analysis.

On the 19th and 20th the Krasnapolsky transforms into a quad track 
conference area hosting several of the worlds leading network security 
experts with an opening keynote delivered by Joe Sullivan, Chief 
Security Officer at Facebook. As CSO at the worlds largest social 
network, Sullivan will take attendees through various case studies 
illustrating how Facebook Security remains innovative in the face of an 
ever evolving threat landscape and how they maintain a unique ability to 
go on the offense through innovative use of civil and criminal 
enforcement mechanisms.

The final day of the conference will commence with a special keynote 
panel discussion on the Economics of Vulnerabilities. Projects like Zero 
Day Initiative (ZDI) and more recently Mozilla and Google’s reward 
programs for exploit disclosure has created a legitimate source of 
income for security researchers. But what about the black market? Aiming 
to answer this question and others, the keynote panel of experts 
includes Lucas Adamski, Director of Security Engineering at Mozilla 
Corp; Steve Adegbite, Senior Security Strategist at Adobe Systems Inc.; 
Aaron Portnoy, Manager of the Security Research Team for TippingPoint / 
ZDI; Chris Evans, Information Security Engineer and Chrome Security Lead 
at Google Corp and Katie Moussouris, Senior Security Strategist at 
Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC).

In addition to the 60 minute talks, attendees who want to get their 
hands dirty are welcome to join the HITB Labs segment – These are 2-hour 
hands-on presentations that require audience interaction and this years’ 
labs will include segments on Malicious PDF Analysis, The Art of 
Exploiting SQL Injection Flaws and Advanced Linux Server Exploitation. 
During the coffee and lunch breaks, The HITB SIGINT sessions will be in 
effect – 15 minute bite-sized presentations designed to provide an 
overview for material and research that's 'up and coming'.

Alongside the main conference proceedings, the HITB experience is 
further enhanced with a technology showcase and exhibition area. This 
area is open to the public and will be home to the Hackerspaces Village 
in which you’ll find representatives from the various European 
hackerspaces showcasing their projects. Participating spaces will also 
be competing in the first-ever ‘HITB Hackerspaces Challenge’ featuring 
LEGO Mindstorms!

In addition to the Hackerspaces Village, there will also be a Lock 
Picking Village run by members of TOOOL Netherlands where you can try 
your hand at picking, bumping, safecracking, and other physical security 
attacks and of course the ‘world famous’ HITB Capture The Flag 
competition! Run for the first time by the .NL CTF Crew, this 
attack-only game aims to mimic real world scenarios and events - whether 
it’s breaking in via SQL injection vulnerabilities, escalating your 
privileges through a buffer overflow or having to pick your way through 
a simple lock, this years game will make even the most elite “hackers” 
sweat!

For more information on HITBSecConf2011 – Amsterdam and to register for 
the event, please see:

http://conference.hackinthebox.nl/hitbsecconf2011ams/


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