Getting ready for SOURCE Boston, now that I have a clear understanding that I’m going. This will be my first time attending let alone getting to Boston. This conference takes place annually, sping(ish). This iteration takes place March 11th-13th, 2009 Seaport Hotel, in Boston, MA. I’m looking forward to seeing some talks in particular including the release of L0phtcrack 6. Unfortunately that release happens at the same time as Christofer Hoff‘s preso entitled “The Frogs Who Desired A King: A Virtualization and Cloud Computing Security Fable Set To Interpretive Dance”.
Aesop wrote this little ditty about some discontented frogs who lived in a pond. They asked Jupiter for a King. They got one. It ate them. The moral of this story is “be careful what you wish for.”
The corresponding analog is that of virtualization and cloud security. It’s coming, but it’s not going to look much like what security looks like today and it’s certainly not what people are expecting. In fact, it may consume us all because we’re unprepared for what we’re asking for.
How can you not show up for a talk like that?
Anyway for those of you attending the SOURCE conference here is a direct link to the information page:
http://www.sourceconference.com/index.php/source-boston-2009/
And here is a list of the speakers that are lined up for this year.
Speakers: http://www.sourceconference.com/schedule-boston2009/index.html
I found it interesting (while poking through the html) that there is a panel discussion commented out in the source. “Panel: Tug Of War Between Business And Security” was apparently supposed to or is going to happen on the Wednesday. I guess that one is probably still coming together. I also noticed that there is no content posted pertaining to Alex Sotirov’s talk yet.
There has been an apparent lineup switch if the commented out easter eggs are a firm indication. Mudge was originally going to give a talk “Gaming Future Botnets” at 11:30 am on Thursday but, that has been switched out for Christien Rioux‘s talk on “The Mobile Device Attack Surface”:
This session will be an in-depth look at a number of mobile device platforms. We will examine their similarities, and derive a list of their weaknesses. An theoretical attack on a number of devices will be presented along with a proof-of-concept demo. Devices examined will include BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, iPhone, and Android.
Putting that one in the “must attend” pile.
However it plays out, it will be a great conference for those in attendance.