Vegas Baby! The B-Side
Posted by Matt Hixson
We are pumped to be at B-Sides Las Vegas!
This week a group of us are hanging out at B-Sides in Las Vegas. We are very excited about the event after we were first exposed to the B-Sides movement in San Francisco this year during RSA. We have had the good fortune of getting to know many of the people that put on this event and the many dedicated folks that make this a success.
Tripwire had the opportunity to participate and help continue the discussion of security, so we jumped on it. It is a two-day event in Las Vegas as the b-side to Defcon.
Most conferences take place in some stuffy hotel convention center but not this event.! They are doing it up right by having it in a mansion in Vegas.
You can check out all of the details of the event on the B-Sides Las Vegas page but there are a few highlights that Tripwire is able to be a part of during the week.
Gene Kim is speaking @ noon on Wednesday
Gene and I started talking to lots of folks during Interop Las Vegas this year about their passions and one of the items that came up consistently was that a ton of these security folks were frustrated at the behaviors that compliance standards like PCI were creating. They like the intention but they hate the fact that people see this as a solution as opposed to a robust security solution. Gene has seen this type of issue before when dealing with SOX. Gene has been doing lots of work with the PCI Council so his talk is called, Mobilizing the PCI Resistance: Lessons Learned From Fighting Prior Wars (SOX-404). From talking to people this is one of the more anticipated talks and Gene always entertains.
Social Media Geekiness + Participation = iPad
This is the part you need to tune into. We decided to give away an iPad for something fun. Really this week for us is about taking in some great discussions and building relationships. Since we are social media geeks for the most part and we want to support the B-Sides movement we created this little contest. It is very simple. The person who tweets the most using the #BsidesLV hash between 6 am Wednesday July 28th through 6pm on Thursday July 29th wins an iPad. It will be at the party for you Thursday night or we will get it to you if you can’t be there. You also get credit if you are retweeted. So the formula for success is the be the person with the most tweets + retweets of #BsidesLV.
PARTY!
There will be a great party on Thursday night. We will take some pictures from that event and post them (the appropriate ones at least!) to our Flickr page with a blog post. Angela Earl on our team is awesome and she has spent some considerable time thinking of some cool ways we could help the B-Sides experience. One of the things she came up with was this awesome beach towel, after all, there is a pool and this is a pool party.
We will be blogging and tweeting from the event. You can follow #BsidesLV on Twitter. The B-Sides movement has been growing quite a bit over the past and this event is lining up to be the biggest yet. It should be a great week so watch here and over at @TripwireInc for all the updates. I will send out the video link so that if you are not able to attend you can watch all the happenings from your desk while you act like you are working intensely.
On a final thought I just wanted to say that I am excited about the next couple of days because the people that have have met to this point that are participants in this are just good people who are a fun bunch to be around. I expect a great week to follow.
Matt
