Shmoocon 2011

About a week from now the Shmoocon 2011 conference will be kicking off. I've managed to attend the past few Shmoocons and it's been a lot of fun. I'm a little disappointed that a couple of friends couldn't get tickets this year. They just seemed to sell out quicker this year. My friends will just have to watch the streams.

There are a lot of great talks this year, as there are every year. The ones I'm most interested in are (based on the descriptions):

• A Paranoid Schizophrenia-based Model of Data Security -  Marsh Ray
• Analytic Framework for Cyber Security -  Peiter "Mudge" Zatko
• Fun with Flow - Richard Friedberg
• INTERSECT: Combining Commercial/FOSS Tools with Custom Code to Root Out Malware  -   Matthew Pawloski and Fotios Lindiakos
• Tracking Flaws – Stream Reassembly Issues in Snort IPS -  Ashley Thomas

 My biggest hope for Shmoocon this year is NO SNOW! Last year's snow was fun, but once was enough.