About the iSEC Open Security Forum

The iSEC Open Security Forum is an informal and open venue for the discussion and presentation of security related research and tools, and an opportunity for San Francisco and Seattle area security researchers from all fields to get together and share work and ideas. Forum agendas are crafted with the specific needs/interests of its members in mind and consist of brief 20-30 minute talks. Talks are not product pitches or strongly vendor preferential. Attendance is by invite only and is limited to engineers and technical managers. Any area of security is welcome including reversing, secure development, new techniques or tools, application security, cryptography, etc.

Upcoming Meetings:

Stay tuned for our special "Black Hat Edition" Forums in Seattle and San Francisco in August 2008!

If you are interested in presenting a short 20-30 minute talk at an upcoming Forum meeting, please email a short abstract and bio to forum@isecpartners.com

Past Meetings:

Date: Wednesday, April 30
Location: iSEC Partners Seattle Office
Bruce Dang / Security Software Engineer / Security Windows Initiative Group, Microsoft - “Methods for analyzing malicious Office documents used in targeted attacks”
Felix Von Leitner / Co-Founder / Code Blau - “Complier Optimizations”
Alex Stamos / Co-Founder and Vice President / iSEC Partners - “Breaking Forensics”

Date: Thursday, April 10
Location: San Francisco
Meeting Agenda:
Tal Garfinkel, VMWare - "Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) Security: Current Research on Virtual Machine Security"
Luis Miras, RingZero – “Developing IDA Pro Plugins”
Scott Stender, iSEC Partners - “Attacking Internationalized Software”

Date: Thursday, January 10
Location: San Francisco
Meeting Agenda:
Rich Cannings - “Cross Site Scripting and Common ActionScript Coding Practices”
Fred Bret-Mounet - "How to use asp.net's pipeline model to insert an application firewall in front of your web server. This talk will cover the requirements, options, lessons learnt and areas of improvement."Nate Lawson - "Recent Attacks on SSL/TLS"
Seth David Schoen- "Pcapdiff"

Date: Thursday, October 18
Location: San Francisco
Meeting Agenda:
Luis Miras- "RF Wireless Vulnerabilities"
Josha Bronson - "Fenum: a tool to enumerate HTML filtering in web applications"
Zane Lackey and Alex Garbutt - "Point, Click, RTPInject"