There are also a couple of other relevant academic security conferences: MetriSec - http://metrisec2011.cs.nku.edu/ (September 21st in Banff, Canada) SESS - http://homes.dico.unimi.it/~monga/sess11.html (May)
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Goertzel, Karen [USA] < goertzel_ka...@bah.com> wrote: > There are these: > > ISC(2) Secure Software Conference Series - > https://www.isc2.org/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?id=650 > > ESSoS - http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2012/ > > SecSE - http://www.sintef.org/secse > > SSIRI - http://paris.utdallas.edu/ssiri11/ > > > But your point is taken. Most of the conferences in this domain appear to > be outside the U.S. I'm not sure what THAT says about U.S. attitudes about > software assurance (though I have my suspicions). > > More important is the question of who actually attends these conferences. > I'm in the process of updating some research on how and where software > security assurance is being taught by colleges and universities, and what > I'm finding is that the topic has been pretty much marginalised into an > aspect of information assurance - i.e., it's being taught mostly to > postgraduates who are majoring in IA and related disciplines - rather than > an aspect of software development. There are exceptions, of course - but by > and large that seems to be the trend. And I think the same is true of the > conferences. It's the security wonks who care about software assurance much > more than the actual software developers. Take a look at: > http://zastita.com/index.php?det=64494 > > === > Karen Mercedes Goertzel, CISSP > Booz Allen Hamilton > 703.698.7454 > goertzel_ka...@bah.com > > Sorry, you have reached an imaginary number. > If you require a real number, please rotate > your phone by ninety degrees and try again. > ________________________________________ > From: sc-l-boun...@securecoding.org [sc-l-boun...@securecoding.org] on > behalf of Steven M. Christey [co...@linus.mitre.org] > Sent: 31 August 2011 16:45 > To: Sergio 'shadown' Alvarez > Cc: Adam Shostack; Secure Code Mailing List > Subject: Re: [SC-L] informIT: Building versus Breaking > > While I'd like to see Black Hat add some more defensive-minded tracks, I > just realized that this desire might a symptom of a larger problem: there > aren't really any large-scale conferences dedicated to defense / software > assurance. (The OWASP conferences are heavily web-focused; Dept. of > Homeland Security has its software assurance forum and working groups, but > those are relatively small.) > > If somebody built it, would anybody come? > > - Steve > _______________________________________________ > Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org > List information, subscriptions, etc - > http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l > List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php > SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) > as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. > Follow KRvW Associates on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates > _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org > List information, subscriptions, etc - > http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l > List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php > SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) > as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. > Follow KRvW Associates on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates > _______________________________________________ >
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